Re: [PATCH] crypto: hisilicon/sec - remove SEC crypto block cipher accelerator

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 04:31:32PM +0800, Chenghai Huang wrote:
> The Hisilicon SEC crypto cipher accelerator has been superseded
> by the newer SEC2 driver (drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec2/). SEC2
> provides wider algorithm coverage and is the maintained path forward,
> and users have migrated to it.
> 
> The legacy SEC driver has had no active users for some time, and its
> primary maintainer, Jonathan Cameron, has moved on from Huawei and
> is no longer in a position to maintain it. With thanks to Jonathan
> for his contributions to this driver over the years, and with no one
> left to keep it up to date, remove it from the tree.
> 
> This drops the legacy SEC driver together with all of its residual
> configuration, devicetree binding and board description references:
> 
>   - drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/
>   - CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_HISI_SEC Kconfig option
>   - sec/ entry from drivers/crypto/hisilicon/Makefile
>   - Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/hisilicon,hip06-sec.yaml
>   - hisilicon,hip07-sec device nodes and their supporting mbigen_alg /
>     smmu_alg infrastructure from arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hip07.dtsi
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chenghai Huang <huangchenghai2@huawei.com>

Acked-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>

You might also need an ack from a devicetree maintainer for dropping the
devicetree binding, though.  They sometimes like to keep the bindings
around even with no driver for some reason.

- Eric