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Re: hardware interface question

I wrote:
> I'd like to add simple support to cryptoapi for a certain on-cpu
> hardware encryption unit.
...
> Can anybody offer advice  about this?  Am I safe assuming I won't get
> called from an interrupt context?  Are there other pitfalls I don't see?

Oh, BTW, perhaps I should mention that this is in a Montavista version
of 2.4.20 -- I guess cryptoapi, and the IPSEC stuff that uses it, is
generally 2.6 material, but MV seems to have backported it.

Thanks,

-Miles
-- 
We live, as we dream -- alone....

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