Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755560AbZKSASZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:18:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752840AbZKSASY (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:18:24 -0500 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:46699 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752771AbZKSASY (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:18:24 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:18:27 +0800 From: Herbert Xu To: "Youquan,Song" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ying.huang@intel.com, kent.liu@intel.com, youquan.song@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH]crypto: Fix algorithm and driver duplicate registered Message-ID: <20091119001827.GC2315@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20091119003202.GA28448@youquan-linux.bj.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091119003202.GA28448@youquan-linux.bj.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 923 Lines: 24 On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 07:32:02PM -0500, Youquan,Song wrote: > Current kernel, All the algorithms with same algorithm name and driver name > are registered. > But the proper behaviour should be only one algorithm be registered when > algorithm and driver name duplicate. > > Signed-off-by: Youquan, Song This is intentional, in order to allow older implementations to be replaced on the fly. Is this causing any issues for you? Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/