[linux-yocto] Back-porting a new driver to Yocto kernel(s)..and device firmware

[Allan, Bruce W]

We have a new hardware crypto device driver currently out for RFC on the linux-crypto mailing list and would like to back-port it to the Yocto Linux kernels once it is committed upstream.  What is the process for getting it into the current dev kernel as well as linux-yocto-3.10 and linux-yocto-3.14?  I've already done the back-port to the three Yocto Linux kernels and found that just 1 or 2 (depending on the kernel) other patches would also be needed.  Is back-porting these patches also allowed as long as they do no harm to anything else?

The device also requires a firmware component which has already been committed to the upstream linux-firmware repository.  How does this get into Yocto?

Thanks,
Bruce Allan.
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