CryptoAPI ideas

[Olaf Christ]

Hi everyone,

I am currently working on cryptoapi hw support for a new crypto-processor. Are 
there any pre-"official" patches which are likely to be included in the 
mainline kernel, to base my work on?

I already followed your previous discussions:

>The issue is how to add support for this in the current kernel series, 
>without unduly disrupting the current API (not sure if it's possible), and 
>also how to take into account the bigger picture of:
>
>- per arch asm
>- per arch hardware (simple algo like s390)
>- per arch hardware (more complex, e.g. performs cipher mode like VIA)
>- various types of hardware accelerators
>- userspace api

Who decides on how to lay out the next version of the cryptoapi?

Cheers,

Olaf

PS: By the way: thanks for the great cryptoapi, James!