Re: [PATCH] crypto: ccp - Check for CCP before registering crypto algs

[Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>]

On 09/15/2014 06:47 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 11:49:38PM +0000, Scot Doyle wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>>
>>> If the ccp is built as a built-in module, then ccp-crypto (whether
>>> built as a module or a built-in module) will be able to load and
>>> it will register its crypto algorithms.  If the system does not have
>>> a CCP this will result in -ENODEV being returned whenever a command
>>> is attempted to be queued by the registered crypto algorithms.
>>>
>>> Add an API, ccp_present(), that checks for the presence of a CCP
>>> on the system.  The ccp-crypto module can use this to determine if it
>>> should register it's crypto alogorithms.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
>>
>> Tested-by: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>
>
> Patch applied.  Thanks!
>

Hi Herbert,

Can you push this patch into the 3.17 release?

Also, it should probably go into to the stable releases.  Is this
something that you request or should I take care of that?

Thanks,
Tom