[OE-core] [PATCHv2] cryptodev kernel module recipe

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Yashpal Dutta <yashpal.dutta at freescale.com>
> wrote:
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>> This is a /dev/crypto device driver, equivalent to those in OpenBSD or
>> FreeBSD.
>> The main idea is to access of existing ciphers in kernel space from
>> userspace,
>> thus enabling re-use of a hardware implementation of a cipher.
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>> Signed-off-by: Yashpal Dutta <yashpal.dutta at freescale.com>
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> I would think that patches which add recipes to oe-core would do more than
> describe what it is, but also provide justification for its inclusion in
> oe-core vs some other layer. If that was already covered in a previous
> thread, that's fine, but I wanted to make sure it was explicit.

Honestly, I'm not really sure why it should be in OE-core other than
that ocf-linux which is semi-equivalent is here also. Maybe we should
look at a meta-crypto layer or just keep this our own layer. Not sure,
opening for discussion here.

-M