[OE-core] [PATCH 0/3] Replace ocf-linux with cryptodev-linux

Denys Dmytriyenko denis at denix.org
Fri Mar 28 17:37:03 UTC 2014


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 05:22:14PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 13:13 -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:42:39AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > > Hello Kai,
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Kai Kang <kai.kang at windriver.com> wrote:
> > > > Replace ocf-linux with cryptodev-linux because linux-yocto use cryptodev-linux to implement /dev/crypto.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for handling it; I was going to address same issue this week so
> > > we could have it upstreamed and drop the Freescale bbappends for it.
> > 
> > So, we also have a recipe of cryptodev for TI builds. But it's not just a 
> > header file and we need the actual module to be built and packaged...
> > 
> > I'm rather surprised it was merged so quickly w/o further discussion... :(
> 
> From my perspective, the ocf version looked dead and I had several
> people saying this was the right thing to do with nobody saying
> otherwise, both here on list and in some conversations I had with
> people. With the release approaching, it was kind of late to do it
> equally, it did appear to be the right thing to switch to so I got on
> and tested and then merged it.
> 
> I don't consider things "set in stone", I think we can build upon this
> incrementally.

Thanks. I'll try to work an incremental solution, then, so it works for us and 
doesn't break other use cases - please see my reply to Bruce.

-- 
Denys



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