From: Austin Zhang <austin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, davem@davemloft.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32c algorithm by new crypto API.
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:51:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217929894.1613.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217859214.3454.629.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-05 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-04 9:35 [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32c algorithm by new crypto API Austin Zhang
2008-08-04 10:12 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-04 10:25 ` Sebastian Siewior
2008-08-04 10:27 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-04 10:48 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-04 10:35 ` Austin Zhang
2008-08-04 10:45 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-04 10:58 ` Austin Zhang
2008-08-04 11:25 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-04 13:45 ` Chris Mason
2008-08-04 15:42 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-04 16:14 ` Chris Mason
2008-08-04 16:45 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-04 17:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-04 17:10 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-04 17:13 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-05 11:10 ` Helge Hafting
2008-08-05 14:04 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-04 18:02 ` Benoit Boissinot
2008-08-05 2:08 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-04 14:04 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-04 14:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-04 14:49 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-04 14:54 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-04 15:12 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-04 14:13 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-04 14:17 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-05 9:51 ` Austin Zhang [this message]
2008-08-04 14:18 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-04 14:19 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-05 9:59 ` Austin Zhang
2008-08-05 10:44 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-04 17:27 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-08-05 10:12 ` Austin Zhang
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