From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: 4.10 aesni-intel no longer having lrw/ablk_helper dependencies? Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 13:14:11 +0800 Message-ID: <20170202051411.GB4349@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <201701292231.59656.a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> <201701301742.35626.arekm@maven.pl> <20170201141739.GD32415@gondor.apana.org.au> <201702011708.03940.arekm@maven.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Eric Biggers , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org To: Arkadiusz =?utf-8?Q?Mi=C5=9Bkiewicz?= Return-path: Received: from helcar.hengli.com.au ([209.40.204.226]:55253 "EHLO helcar.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750953AbdBBGAC (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2017 01:00:02 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201702011708.03940.arekm@maven.pl> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 05:08:03PM +0100, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote: > > q: Will later loading of pcbc (so intel-aseni loaded from initrd, no pcbc > available, rootfs gets mounted; pcbc is loaded) enable its "functionality" for > intel-aesni just like it would be available at intel-aesni load time ? No it won't but it's no big deal as pcbc(aes) isn't actually used anywhere so it's really just an example of using fpu. AFAIK pcbc is only ever used with fcrypt. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt