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[PATCH v2 00/15] crypto user configuration api

From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Date: 2011-08-17 12:08:02

This patchset adds a netlink based user configuration API for the crypto
layer, similar to the configuration API of xfrm.

The patchset is based on the current cryptodev-2.6 tree and also available
at branch 'crypto-user-config-api' of

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/linux-stk.git

A userspace tool that makes use of the configuration API is temporarily
available at

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/klassert/crconf/ 

With this it is possible to instantiate certain algorithms by doing

crconf add driver "cbc(aes-generic)" type 4

or

crconf add driver "cbc(aes-generic)" type 4 priority 100

To remove a (form templates build and unused) algorithm with all subsequent
algorithms do

crconf del driver "cbc(aes-generic)" type 4

Finally it is possible to print the instantiated crypto algorithms
similar to /proc/crypto by doing

crconf show all

This prints the algorithm informations of all instantiated algorithms
as long as the information fits into a netlink message.

Changes from v1:

- Removed the priority update functions.
- Fix algorithm information printing when build as module.
- Update the crconf tool according to the kernel changes.

Steffen
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