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

[huangchenghai <huangchenghai2@huawei.com>]

在 2026/8/19 1:28, Eric Biggers 写道:
> 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 The Hisilicon SEC crypto cipher accelerator has been superseded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

Alright, I will resend it and send it to the devicetree maintainer.


Thanks,
Chenghai