From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
Cc: Andreas Happe <andreashappe@flatline.ath.cx>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cryptoapi@lists.logix.cz
Subject: Re: [cryptoapi/sysfs] display cipher details in sysfs
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 09:45:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040907164500.GA8530@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Xine.LNX.4.44.0409071236050.26033-100000@thoron.boston.redhat.com>
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 12:37:48PM -0400, James Morris wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > Other than that, I like this move, /proc/crypto isn't the best thing to
> > have in a proc filesystem :)
>
> The only issue is what to do about potentially expanding this into an API
> (e.g. open() an algorithm and write to it). Does this sort of thing
> belong in sysfs?
No, not really. That should be in a special fs just for crypto stuff
(cryptofs?) sysfs is for displaying and setting single units of kernel
information at at time. So for just showing this crypto information, it
would be fine to use.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-07 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20040831175449.GA2946@final-judgement.ath.cx>
[not found] ` <Xine.LNX.4.44.0409010043020.30561-100000@thoron.boston.redhat.com>
2004-09-01 8:28 ` [cryptoapi/sysfs] display cipher details in sysfs Andreas Happe
2004-09-06 0:04 ` Greg KH
2004-09-07 16:37 ` James Morris
2004-09-07 16:45 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-09-07 16:47 ` Michal Ludvig
2004-09-07 16:52 ` Greg KH
2004-09-06 18:49 ` Michal Ludvig
2004-09-07 14:35 ` Andreas Happe
2004-09-07 15:49 ` Michal Ludvig
2004-09-07 16:57 ` Andreas Happe
2004-09-10 11:21 ` Andreas Happe
2004-09-10 10:55 ` Andreas Happe
2004-09-27 8:41 ` Andreas Happe
2004-09-27 9:10 ` Michal Ludvig
2004-09-28 12:34 ` Andreas Happe
2004-09-29 9:36 ` Andreas Happe
2004-09-29 9:37 ` Andreas Happe
2004-09-29 14:13 ` Michal Ludvig
2004-09-29 13:13 ` Michal Ludvig
2004-09-27 15:53 ` James Morris
2004-09-28 12:21 ` [PATCH 2.6.9-rc2 1/2] cryptoapi: update sysfs-patch Andreas Happe
2004-09-28 12:23 ` [PATCH 2.6.9-rc2 2/2] cryptoapi: make /proc/crypto optional Andreas Happe
2004-09-28 14:32 ` Sven Schuster
2004-09-29 8:40 ` Andreas Happe
2004-09-07 16:36 ` [cryptoapi/sysfs] display cipher details in sysfs James Morris
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