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SubjectRe: crypto API and IBM z990 hardware support
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.

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