Re: [Cryptodev-linux-devel] cryptodev in Linux

2010-08-17 Thread Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
On 08/08/2010 07:40 PM, Jan Misiak wrote: > Hello, > > I appreciate your effort of maintaining cryptodev module for Linux. > There is something I do not understand though. Why doesn't Linux > kernel expose its CryptoAPI to userspace and force users to rely on > this patch or OCF? Do you plan on pu

[Cryptodev-linux-devel] cryptodev in Linux

2010-08-16 Thread Jan Misiak
Hello, I appreciate your effort of maintaining cryptodev module for Linux. There is something I do not understand though. Why doesn't Linux kernel expose its CryptoAPI to userspace and force users to rely on this patch or OCF? Do you plan on pushing this upstream? If not -- what's preventing it?