Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32c algorithm by new crypto API.

Austin Zhang
2008-08-05T09:55:18Z

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 15:13 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Am I missing something here, or are you registering the crypto algorithm
> _unconditionally_ and then just causing init requests for it to fail on
> older hardware? Wouldn't it be better to register the driver _only_
> when the hardware is capable? Or at least "if at least one cpu is
> capable".
Thanks, I will move it to module init.
> I think that should depend on CONFIG_X86?
Thanks.