From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752483Ab1LTFiq (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:38:46 -0500 Received: from helcar.apana.org.au ([209.40.204.226]:48794 "EHLO fornost.hengli.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752429Ab1LTFij (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:38:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:38:26 +0800 From: Herbert Xu To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Andi Kleen , Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trenn@suse.de, kay.sievers@vrf.org, Andi Kleen , kay.sievers@vrfy.org, axboe@kernel.dk, ying.huang@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] crypto: Add support for x86 cpuid auto loading for x86 crypto drivers Message-ID: <20111220053826.GA3184@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <1324334865-30459-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <1324334865-30459-4-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <20111219232246.GB570@redhat.com> <4EEFC7D2.70803@zytor.com> <20111220040829.GD5637@one.firstfloor.org> <4EF014FE.4050101@zytor.com> <20111220053059.GA3108@gondor.apana.org.au> <4EF01E89.5000007@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EF01E89.5000007@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 09:35:05PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 12/19/2011 09:30 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 08:54:22PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> > >> What is really bad is that it doesn't tell you anywhere what it *is* using. > > > > You can always check /proc/crypto to see what is currently > > registered. The system will always choose the one with the > > highest priority out of those as the default. > > Yes, but it's ridiculous for it to list all the things I'm *not* using, > but not what I *am* using... If your system doesn't have the VIA Padlock it won't even show up in /proc/crypto since it'll fail to register. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt