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Dan Williams 28405d8d9c async_tx, dmaengine: document channel allocation and api rework
"Wouldn't it be better if the dmaengine layer made sure it didn't pass
the same channel several times to a client?

I mean, you seem concerned that the memcpy() API should be transparent
and easy to use, but the whole registration interface is just
ridiculously complicated..."
	- Haavard

The dmaengine and async_tx registration/allocation interface is indeed
needlessly complicated.  This redesign has the following goals:

1/ Simplify reference counting: dma channels are not something one would
   expect to be hotplugged, it should be an exceptional event handled by
   drivers not something clients should be mandated to handle in a
   callback.  The common case channel removal event is 'rmmod <dma driver>',
   which for simplicity should be disallowed if the channel is in use.
2/ Add an interface for requesting exclusive access to a channel
   suitable to device-to-memory users.
3/ Convert all memory-to-memory users over to a common allocator, the goal
   here is to not have competing channel allocation schemes.  The only
   competition should be between device-to-memory exclusive allocations and
   the memory-to-memory usage case where channels are shared between
   multiple "clients".

Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-01-05 18:10:19 -07:00
Herbert Xu 86f578de5b [CRYPTO] doc: Update api-intro.txt
This patch updates the list of transforms we support and clarifies that
the Block Ciphers interface in fact supports all ciphers including stream
ciphers.

It also removes the obsolete Configuration Notes section and adds the
linux-crypto mailing list as the primary bug reporting address.

Finally it documents the fact that setkey should only be called from
user context.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-01-11 08:16:14 +11:00
Dan Williams c5d2b9f444 async_tx: usage documentation and developer notes (v2)
Changes in v2:
* cleanups from Randy and Shannon

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2007-09-24 10:26:25 -07:00
John Anthony Kazos Jr be2a608bd0 documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8
Convert files within the Documentation directory to UTF-8.

Adrian Bunk:
small additional fixes

Signed-off-by: John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@j-a-k-j.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09 08:58:19 +02:00
Johannes Schlumberger 58e40308f3 [CRYPTO] doc: Fix typo in hash example
there is a tiny bug in Documentation/crypto/api-intro.txt.
The file has the following example code:

struct scatterlist sg[2];
[...]
if (crypto_hash_digest(&desc, &sg, 2, result))

which does not match the declaration of crypto_hash_digest() in
include/linux/crypto.h.

(static inline int crypto_hash_digest(struct hash_desc *desc,
	struct scatterlist *sg, unsigned int nbytes, u8 *out)

The code in the example passes the address of a pointer (an array actually) as
the second argument, while the function expects the pointer itself.

I have attached a patch to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-03-21 08:55:58 +11:00
Noriaki TAKAMIYA dc2e2f33bb [CRYPTO] doc: added the developer of Camellia cipher
This patch adds the developer of Camellia cipher algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Noriaki TAKAMIYA <takamiya@po.ntts.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-02-07 09:21:05 +11:00
Herbert Xu 878b901466 [CRYPTO] doc: Update documentation for hash and me
This patch updates the documentation to reflect the switch from digest
to hash.  It also replaces notes about emailing James Morris to refer
to me instead.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:46:20 +10:00
Tobias Klauser d533f67185 [PATCH] Spelling fixes for Documentation/
The attached patch fixes the following spelling errors in Documentation/
        - double "the"
        - Several misspellings of function/functionality
        - infomation
        - memeory
        - Recieved
        - wether
and possibly others which I forgot ;-)
Trailing whitespaces on the same line as the typo are also deleted.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10 10:06:28 -07:00
Aaron Grothe fb4f10ed50 [CRYPTO]: Fix XTEA implementation
The XTEA implementation was incorrect due to a misinterpretation of
operator precedence.  Because of the wide-spread nature of this
error, the erroneous implementation will be kept, albeit under the
new name of XETA.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Grothe <ajgrothe@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-01 17:42:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00