linux-kernel - Re: Initcall ordering problem (TTY vs modprobe vs MD5) and cryptomgr problem

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Date:	Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:39:00 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>
Cc:	kyle@...fetthome.net, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au, dhowells@...hat.com, gregkh@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Initcall ordering problem (TTY vs modprobe vs MD5) and
	cryptomgr problem

Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com> wrote:
>
> Of course in practice without the tests your boot would probably just
> have failed.  Badly-decrypted root partitions tend to be noticed as
> such long before trying to write to them.  Then you would have bitched
> on the list and the driver would have been fixed or removed faster
> than having to wait for you (or other people with the hardware issue)
> to notice the spew in dmesg.

So you'd rather have a box that doesn't boot rather than one
that automatically falls back to software crypto allowing you
to diagnose and report the problem.

Yes that makes a lot of sense.

Thanks,
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