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Message-ID: <464F4FD1.5030308@simon.arlott.org.uk> Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 20:28:17 +0100 From: Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu> To: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> CC: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, michal@...ix.cz, ioe-lkml@...eria.de Subject: Re: [PATCH (v2)] crypto: Remove pointless padlock module On 18/05/07 07:45, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:01:10AM +0100, Simon Arlott wrote: >> When this is compiled in it is run too early to do anything useful: >> [ 6.052000] padlock: No VIA PadLock drivers have been loaded. >> [ 6.052000] padlock: Using VIA PadLock ACE for AES algorithm. >> [ 6.052000] padlock: Using VIA PadLock ACE for SHA1/SHA256 algorithms. >> >> When it's a module it isn't doing anything special, the same functionality >> can be provided in userspace by "probeall padlock padlock-aes padlock-sha" >> in modules.conf if it is required. > > BTW, I noticed that this prevented CRYPTO_ALGAPI from being marked as m > since it was selected by CRYPTO_DEV_PADLOCK. So I'm turning it into a > tristate again. It should be a bool that doesn't select anything, the AES and SHA modules will select CRYPTO_ALGAPI. It could also depend on MVIAC3_2 || MVIA_C7 instead of X86_32. -- Simon Arlott - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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