From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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
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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.
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