[PATCH v2 0/5] ARM: add module autoloading support for crypto modules

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at armlinux.org.uk
Wed Feb 15 11:35:36 PST 2017


On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 07:29:39PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 15 February 2017 at 19:24, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 05:16:47PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >> On 31 January 2017 at 13:47, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:
> >> > On 19 January 2017 at 18:23, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:
> >> >> On 11 January 2017 at 17:01, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:
> >> >>> This series wires up the crypto modules that use the ARM 32-bit versions of
> >> >>> the ARMv8 Crypto Extensions to udev autoloading, by exposing the HWCAP2
> >> >>> feature bits via the CPU modalias. This is very similar to the arm64
> >> >>> implementation, with the notable exception that ARM has its CPU feature
> >> >>> definitions split across HWCAP and HWCAP2.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Given that the crypto feature bits are all exposed via HWCAP2, and considering
> >> >>> that there are currently no features exposed via HWCAP that are relevant to
> >> >>> udev module autoloading, exposing HWCAP2 only should be sufficient, at least
> >> >>> for now.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Changes since v1:
> >> >>> - rebase onto v4.10-rc2
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Ard Biesheuvel (5):
> >> >>>   ARM: wire up HWCAP2 feature bits to the CPU modalias
> >> >>
> >> >> Ping?
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Ping?
> >>
> >> Ping?
> >
> > Sorry, but whom are you pinging?
> >
> 
> You. This is something you were going to look at, then couldn't find
> the email and asked me to resend, which I did.
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-crypto-vger&m=147678795532341&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=148415420105771

Right, I'd forgotten, and as it wasn't sent _TO_ me, I wasn't paying
attention.  If you want me to do something, then always send _TO_ me.
Don't just CC me.

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