From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: Add soft module dependency to load HW
 accelerated crypto modules
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:16:06 -0800
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On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 15:28 -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:14:37AM -0800, Tim Chen wrote:
> > We added the soft module dependency of various crypto algorithm's module alias
> >  to generic crypto algorithm's module. This loads hardware accelerated
> >  modules and uses them when available.
> > 
> This is great, but have any of the module load utilties been modified to
> recognize and handle soft dependencies in the modinfo section? Last I checked
> they hadn't.  Do you plan to add that functionality?
> 
> Neil
> 

Rusty,

Do you know if the upstream modprobe has the fixes (or plan) to
recognize soft dependencies?  I was under the impression that it
is the case.

Thanks.

Tim