On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Chris Larson <clar...@kergoth.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Yashpal Dutta <yashpal.du...@freescale.com> > wrote: >> >> This is a /dev/crypto device driver, equivalent to those in OpenBSD or >> FreeBSD. >> The main idea is to access of existing ciphers in kernel space from >> userspace, >> thus enabling re-use of a hardware implementation of a cipher. >> >> Signed-off-by: Yashpal Dutta <yashpal.du...@freescale.com> > > > I would think that patches which add recipes to oe-core would do more than > describe what it is, but also provide justification for its inclusion in > oe-core vs some other layer. If that was already covered in a previous > thread, that's fine, but I wanted to make sure it was explicit.
Honestly, I'm not really sure why it should be in OE-core other than that ocf-linux which is semi-equivalent is here also. Maybe we should look at a meta-crypto layer or just keep this our own layer. Not sure, opening for discussion here. -M _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core