From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Chenghai Huang <huangchenghai2@huawei.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, robh+dt@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
xuwei5@huawei.com, prime.zeng@hisilicon.com,
liulongfang@huawei.com, qianweili@huawei.com,
wangzhou1@hisilicon.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
will@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: hisilicon/sec - remove SEC crypto block cipher accelerator
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:06:59 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aqOMc1vGnmiULh2E@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260819075353.94500-1-huangchenghai2@huawei.com>
On Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 03:53:53PM +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 The Hisilicon SEC crypto cipher accelerator has been superseded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>
> Reviewed-by: Longfang Liu <liulongfang@huawei.com>
> Acked-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Wei Xu <xuwei5@hisilicon.com>
> ---
> .../bindings/crypto/hisilicon,hip06-sec.yaml | 134 --
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hip07.dtsi | 280 ----
> drivers/crypto/hisilicon/Kconfig | 14 -
> drivers/crypto/hisilicon/Makefile | 1 -
> drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/Makefile | 3 -
> drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/sec_algs.c | 1122 --------------
> drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/sec_drv.c | 1307 -----------------
> drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/sec_drv.h | 428 ------
> 8 files changed, 3289 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/crypto/hisilicon,hip06-sec.yaml
> delete mode 100644 drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/Makefile
> delete mode 100644 drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/sec_algs.c
> delete mode 100644 drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/sec_drv.c
> delete mode 100644 drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/sec_drv.h
Patch applied. Thanks.
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2026-08-19 7:53 [PATCH v2] crypto: hisilicon/sec - remove SEC crypto block cipher accelerator Chenghai Huang
2026-09-11 5:06 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
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