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

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Wed Feb 15 11:29:39 PST 2017


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.

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