From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932438AbWA0J2U (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:28:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932439AbWA0J2T (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:28:19 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:22670 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932438AbWA0J2T (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:28:19 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:28:17 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: David H?rdeman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com, keyrings@linux-nfs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/04] Add multi-precision-integer maths library Message-ID: <20060127092817.GB24362@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , David H?rdeman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com, keyrings@linux-nfs.org References: <1138312694656@2gen.com> <1138312695665@2gen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1138312695665@2gen.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:58:15PM +0100, David H?rdeman wrote: > > Adds the multi-precision-integer maths library which was originally taken > from GnuPG and ported to the kernel by (among others) David Howells. > This version is taken from Fedora kernel 2.6.15-1.1871_FC5. This is ugly as hell. If we decided to add it it really needs a major cleanup, fitting into linux style and removal of unused functionality, the assembly bits needs to move to an asm/ header, etc. But to be honest I'd say anything that requires bigints shouldn't go into the kernel at all. Could someone explain why they want dsa support in kernelspace?