Bug#1001731: linux: Please consider enabling CONFIG_TLS_DEVICE

[Andrea Pappacoda <andreapappacoda02@gmail.com>]

Source: linux
Severity: wishlist

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Dear Maintainer,

I saw that you recently enabled the tls module. Great! It would also be nice to
enable CONFIG_TLS_DEVICE, so that the kernel can offload TLS handling to the
hardware, when supported (like with some network cards).

It seems that Ubuntu enabled it as well:
https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/unstable/tree/debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu?id=08e3a17135e7c81c89b6f8c78bd81090a2bfdf74#n11176

Thanks :)


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not
set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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