[PATCH 0/2] Add Opal unlock support to NVMe.

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 04/25/2016 10:24 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 04:12:10PM -0700, Rafael Antognolli wrote:
>> This patch series implement a small set of the Opal protocol for self
>> encrypting devices. It's implemented only what is needed for saving a password
>> and unlocking a given "locking range". The password is saved on the driver and
>> replayed back to the device on resume from suspend to RAM. It is specifically
>> supporting the single user mode.
>>
>> It is not planned to implement the full Opal protocol (at least not for now).
> 
> I think the OPAL code should be a generic library outside the NVMe
> code so that we can use it for SATA and SAS as well, just with a little
> glue code for the Security Send / Receive commands to wire it up to
> NVMe.
> 
Fully agree. Having generic OPAL support would be a major benefit.

Cheers,

Hannes
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