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Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] crypto: jitter - change module_init(jent_mod_init)
 to subsys_initcall(jent_mod_init)
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Date:   Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:48:38 +0800
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Submitting patches directly to stable branches will not be accepted.

Maybe it doesn't need fixing，we can also compile ecdh into modules
to get around this problem.

Thanks for your time.

On 2023/4/26 17:26, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 05:18:11PM +0800, cuigaosheng wrote:
>> Thanks for taking time to review this patch.
>>
>> We have not used subsystem initialisation ordering to guarantee the
>> order of registration since commit adad556efcdd ("crypto: api - Fix
>> built-in testing dependency failures"),but this patch is not a bugfix,
>> it's not merged into the earlier stable branch.
> You're going about this backwards.  We don't apply patches to
> the mainline kernel to fix problems that only exist in an older
> version.
>
> If you have a problem with an older kernel then you should fix
> it there.
>
> Cheers,