On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 09:03:33 +0000
"Gonglei (Arei)" <arei.gong...@huawei.com> wrote:

> > From: Cornelia Huck [mailto:cornelia.h...@de.ibm.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 4:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: [RFC v2] virtio-crypto specification
> > 
> > On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 09:14:09 +0000
> > "Gonglei (Arei)" <arei.gong...@huawei.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > >                  Virtio-crypto device Spec
> > >
> > > 1 Crypto Device
> > > The virtio crypto device is a virtual crypto device (ie. hardware crypto
> > accelerator card). The encryption and decryption requests of are placed in 
> > the
> > data queue, and handled by the real hardware crypto accelerators finally. A
> > second queue is the control queue, which is used to create or destroy 
> > session
> > for symmetric algorithms, and to control some advanced features.
> > > 1.1       Device ID
> > > 65535 (experimental)
> > 
> > I think you should just go ahead and reserve a device ID for this.
> > 
> OK, I want to reserve 20 as Crypto device's ID as 19 is reserved for Socket 
> device.

Just go ahead and send a patch against the virtio spec that reserves it.


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