linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1

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Date:	Sun, 2 Sep 2007 11:59:53 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 08:22:42AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> So what finally got exported out of crypto/ to the rest of the kernel
> was just the crypto_alloc_xxx() wrapper. That resolves to a call to
> crypto_alloc_base() in crypto/api.c, which first loads the specific
> low-level algo modules, and then proceeds to crypto_init_ops(), which
> itself may, say, resolve to a crypto_init_digest_ops() -- the only
> interface exported from digest.c.

The mid-level code such as digest.c are only built-in because
they are legacy code.  All the new mid-level code such as
blkcipher/hash are registered dynamically.

Once all the digest stuff have been converted to hash digest.c
will be removed.

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