From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
Cc: Thomas Spatzier <TSPAT@de.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: crypto API and IBM z990 hardware support
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 08:11:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030707081159.B1848@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.LNX.4.44.0307030234400.1298-100000@excalibur.intercode.com.au>; from jmorris@intercode.com.au on Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:57:30AM +1000
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:57:30AM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> Then, when a caller specifies "aes", crypto_alg_autoload() would first
> check the alias list, giving preference to CRYPTO_ALG_ARCH by default.
> In this case, it would find aes_z990 and try and load it. If this fails,
> it continues along the alias list then ultimately falls back to the
> current behavior.
This sounds like the right way to do it. The question is just whether we
want to put that complicated policy into the kernel or into some userspace
helper.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-07 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-02 12:35 crypto API and IBM z990 hardware support Thomas Spatzier
2003-07-02 16:57 ` James Morris
2003-07-07 7:11 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-07-07 10:27 ` James Morris
[not found] <4P45.5YN.11@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <4T81.24d.41@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-07-02 22:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-07-06 14:08 ` James Morris
2003-07-06 17:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-07-07 7:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2003-07-02 20:23 Ulrich Weigand
2003-07-02 7:07 Thomas Spatzier
2003-07-02 9:35 ` James Morris
2003-07-07 7:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-08 2:53 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-08 3:37 ` Roland Dreier
2003-07-08 3:35 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-10 1:08 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-07-10 1:08 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-10 2:06 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-07-10 2:06 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-10 2:37 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-07-11 0:02 ` David S. Miller
[not found] ` <mailman.1057799700.15422.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2003-07-10 5:55 ` Pete Zaitcev
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