From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: Dean Jenkins <djenkins@mvista.com>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPsec books and how to add async hardware encryption ?
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 14:13:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081103111316.GA19920@ioremap.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811031050.59710.djenkins@mvista.com>
Hi Dean.
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:50:59AM +0000, Dean Jenkins (djenkins@mvista.com) wrote:
> > cryptd is an software engine example of how hardware driver could be
> > implemented.
>
> Are you saying that to implement an async hardware driver I could use the APIs
> used by cryptd and create my own hwcryptd ?
Yes for the APIs used in cryptd, but usually hardware driver does not
need to have any threads attached, since completion of the event is
handled in the interrupt handler.
> If yes, is there any documentation for the APIs used by cryptd ?
No, there is no documentation except source code.
In some files you can even find this comments:
* HEAVY TODO: needs to kick Herbert XU to write documentation.
Herbert is a crypto maintainer who created async crypto interfaces you
found in cryptd. You can also check hardware crypto drivers in
drivers/crypto/ directory.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-03 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-31 15:08 IPsec books and how to add async hardware encryption ? Dean Jenkins
2008-10-31 20:32 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-11-03 10:50 ` Dean Jenkins
2008-11-03 11:13 ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
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