Re: [PATCH] openssl: disable cryptodev by default

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2017-03-08 at 17:35 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-03-08 at 11:28 -0600, Mark Hatle wrote:
> > 
> > On 3/8/17 10:57 AM, Ross Burton wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Cryptodev is a way for userspace to access the kernel crypto
> > > drivers (and so,
> > > hardware crypto).
> > If the BSP does not support crypto dev, what is the harm in
> > this?  It
> > should fall back to standard behaviors.
> Note that the implication here is that openssl depends on the kernel
> building and many other pieces of the system depend on openssl so it
> does bottleneck the build somewhat. 
> 
> It also means a kernel rebuild ends up triggering half the userspace
> to rebuild which is annoying for users.

Just to clarify, it doesn't depend on the kernel module, only on a
header so it shouldn't be triggering kernel dependencies. I was getting
some recipe names confused.

I think Ross is going to take another look at this patch...

Cheers,

Richard