From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkov@math.uni-muenster.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
info-linux@geode.amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] do not compile AMD Geode's hwcrypto driver as a module per default
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:21:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610232221.14265.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1161602705.19388.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Monday 23 October 2006 13:25, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Sad, 2006-10-21 am 10:17 +0200, ysgrifennodd Borislav Petkov:
> > This one should be probably made dependent on some #define saying that the cpu
> > is an AMD and has the LX Geode crypto hardware built in. Turn it off for now.
>
> That makes no real sense. Most kernel selections are "run on lots of
> processor types", we thus want as much as possible modular, built and
> available.
>
> The existing defaults seem quite sane.
I can only second that.
Building it as a module does not hurt, except few k disk space.
But that does not really hurt, given today's disk sizes. ;)
And if you have a small disk, you can still disable it.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-23 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-21 8:17 [PATCH] do not compile AMD Geode's hwcrypto driver as a module per default Borislav Petkov
2006-10-23 11:25 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-23 12:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2006-10-23 17:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2006-10-23 17:35 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-23 20:21 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2006-10-24 5:49 ` Borislav Petkov
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