netdev - Re: [PATCH -next] net: avoid inet dependency on aes crypto

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Date:	Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:50:10 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	<fw@...len.de>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] net: avoid inet dependency on aes crypto

On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 15:25 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:30:03 +0200
> 
> > commit 798b2cbf9227b1bd7d37ae9af4d9c750e6f4de9c
> > (net: Add INET dependency on aes crypto for the sake of TCP fastopen.)
> > results in aes-asm module no longer being loaded when AES cipher is
> > requested, due to CRYPTO_AES=y.
> > 
> > However, there is no link-time dependency on aes. Drop dep and instead
> > set "default m" for aes crypto if inet is enabled.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
> 
> This is terrible on so many levels.
> 
> If the assembler versions of the AES module can't be loaded properly
> when AES is built statically into the kernel, don't work around it,
> fix it instead.

On x86 the appropriate optimised aes implementation should still be
loaded based on an 'x86cpu' alias.  I don't know whether it will end up
being used.

It doesn't look like anything similar has been done for other
architectures yet, but that is probably the way to go.

Ben.

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