"Wouldn't it be better if the dmaengine layer made sure it didn't pass
the same channel several times to a client?
I mean, you seem concerned that the memcpy() API should be transparent
and easy to use, but the whole registration interface is just
ridiculously complicated..."
- Haavard
The dmaengine and async_tx registration/allocation interface is indeed
needlessly complicated. This redesign has the following goals:
1/ Simplify reference counting: dma channels are not something one would
expect to be hotplugged, it should be an exceptional event handled by
drivers not something clients should be mandated to handle in a
callback. The common case channel removal event is 'rmmod <dma driver>',
which for simplicity should be disallowed if the channel is in use.
2/ Add an interface for requesting exclusive access to a channel
suitable to device-to-memory users.
3/ Convert all memory-to-memory users over to a common allocator, the goal
here is to not have competing channel allocation schemes. The only
competition should be between device-to-memory exclusive allocations and
the memory-to-memory usage case where channels are shared between
multiple "clients".
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
This patch updates the list of transforms we support and clarifies that
the Block Ciphers interface in fact supports all ciphers including stream
ciphers.
It also removes the obsolete Configuration Notes section and adds the
linux-crypto mailing list as the primary bug reporting address.
Finally it documents the fact that setkey should only be called from
user context.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Changes in v2:
* cleanups from Randy and Shannon
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Convert files within the Documentation directory to UTF-8.
Adrian Bunk:
small additional fixes
Signed-off-by: John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@j-a-k-j.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
there is a tiny bug in Documentation/crypto/api-intro.txt.
The file has the following example code:
struct scatterlist sg[2];
[...]
if (crypto_hash_digest(&desc, &sg, 2, result))
which does not match the declaration of crypto_hash_digest() in
include/linux/crypto.h.
(static inline int crypto_hash_digest(struct hash_desc *desc,
struct scatterlist *sg, unsigned int nbytes, u8 *out)
The code in the example passes the address of a pointer (an array actually) as
the second argument, while the function expects the pointer itself.
I have attached a patch to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
This patch adds the developer of Camellia cipher algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Noriaki TAKAMIYA <takamiya@po.ntts.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
This patch updates the documentation to reflect the switch from digest
to hash. It also replaces notes about emailing James Morris to refer
to me instead.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
The attached patch fixes the following spelling errors in Documentation/
- double "the"
- Several misspellings of function/functionality
- infomation
- memeory
- Recieved
- wether
and possibly others which I forgot ;-)
Trailing whitespaces on the same line as the typo are also deleted.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The XTEA implementation was incorrect due to a misinterpretation of
operator precedence. Because of the wide-spread nature of this
error, the erroneous implementation will be kept, albeit under the
new name of XETA.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Grothe <ajgrothe@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
