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Date:   Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:24:22 +1100
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To:     Tianjia Zhang <tianjia.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     Vitaly Chikunov <vt@altlinux.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: ecrdsa - use subsys_initcall instead of
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:21:56AM +0800, Tianjia Zhang wrote:
>
> > That is true only if there are non-generic implementations of
> > the algorithms, which is not the case here.  Please explain the
> > real reason why this is needed.
> 
> This is a generic algorithm, the author Vitaly Chikunov has also confirmed
> it, please consider this patch again.

As I said, the generic algorithm only needs to be loaded early *if*
there are non-generic implementations.

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