From: Francis Moreau Subject: Re: question about crypto module dependency Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:47:53 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20120118053933.GA23562@gondor.apana.org.au> <20120118121325.GA25822@gondor.apana.org.au> <20120118222516.GA30542@gondor.apana.org.au> <20120119115831.GA3017@gondor.apana.org.au> <20120119122841.GA3437@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org To: Herbert Xu Return-path: Received: from mail-tul01m020-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:55225 "EHLO mail-tul01m020-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751897Ab2AVOry convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:47:54 -0500 Received: by obcva7 with SMTP id va7so2221489obc.19 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:47:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120119122841.GA3437@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 01:26:30PM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Herbert Xu >> wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 09:10:48AM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote: >> >> >> >> How things are supposed to work when : >> >> >> >> =A0 - crc32c module is not loaded >> >> =A0 - libcrc32c module is not loaded >> >> =A0 - btrfs is not loaded >> >> >> >> and I issue: "modprobe btrfs" ? >> > >> > When libcrc32c is loaded it'll automatically load crc32c through >> > the Crypto API. >> > >> >> Did you try ? > > Yes it works on my machine. > Ok, It's acutally the user space tools which are confused: they don't have a way to track the dependency therefore crc32c is not included in my initrd. I'm wondering how this could be fixed... I could hard code the dependency in userspace but it looks like an ugly workaround. Thanks --=20 =46rancis