From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751975AbXD2Hfw (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:35:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755007AbXD2Hfv (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:35:51 -0400 Received: from smtprelay07.ispgateway.de ([80.67.29.7]:60963 "EHLO smtprelay07.ispgateway.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751975AbXD2Hfu (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:35:50 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 400 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:35:49 EDT From: Ingo Oeser To: Simon Arlott Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: Use padlock.ko only as a module Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:28:56 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Randy Dunlap , Linux Kernel Mailing List , herbert@gondor.apana.org.au References: <463379FA.9080004@simon.arlott.org.uk> <20070428153707.50f1644a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <4633D6E3.5060602@simon.arlott.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4633D6E3.5060602@simon.arlott.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704290928.57764.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Scott, On Sunday 29 April 2007, Simon Arlott wrote: > Ideally I'd just remove that module completely, all it does is > trigger the loading of the other two modules when modules are > used - so I'll submit a patch for that instead. That's much better! When you force a feature to be a module on a kernel without module support, it will effectivly be disabled. And if it is so simple to do the same in userspace like you suggest, than that's much better. Best Regards Ingo Oeser