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

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Tue Jan 31 05:47:37 PST 2017


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
>
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