[cryptoapi/sysfs] display cipher details in sysfs

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Tue Sep 7 18:52:48 CEST 2004


On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:47:06PM +0200, Michal Ludvig wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, 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?
> 
> I already proposed to have a 'cryptoapifs' mounted e.g. under
> /dev/cryptoapi with the "active" entrypoints while /sys would only hold
> the "status" of the cryptoapi. Would this be a better approach?

That sounds acceptable.

thanks,

greg k-h


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