Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] crypto: Add Allwinner Security System crypto accelerator

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon Nov 03 2014 - 05:36:41 EST


On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 10:34:46AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> What I mean is that since you are saying that drivers should do the
> kmap themselves, then *all* of the drivers are broken if they are not
> using it. And all of them are missing this kmap.

kmap is used by the software implementations to map the input/output
into virtual address space. Drivers typically use DMA and operate
on physical addresses so they don't need kmap.

Cheers,
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