Re: Unloading hardware based crypto to fallback to software based crypto

2008-11-09 Thread Herbert Xu
Dean Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a mechanism to allow a hardware crypto driver to be unloaded and the > IPsec session to fallback to using software based crypto drivers ? Fail-over should be implemented within the driver. Please look at drivers/crypto/padlock-sha.c for an ex

Unloading hardware based crypto to fallback to software based crypto

2008-11-07 Thread Dean Jenkins
Hi, Is there a mechanism to allow a hardware crypto driver to be unloaded and the IPsec session to fallback to using software based crypto drivers ? The requirement is to not take down the IPsec tunnel whilst unloading the hardware crypto driver. Bascially, the hardware become unavailable durin