Re: {twofish,aes}-{x86_64,i586} versus C implementations

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On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 02:42:39PM +0200, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
>
> Herbert, I tried to implement a MODULE_PRIO() macro which would be used
> by the module loader and I noticed that it may not be required.
> If there are two modules providing the same alias and we modprobe that
> alias than modprobe will load both of them. It may be a waste of memory
> if we load the generic algorithm and the assembly optimized one.
> However, it would be good for some hardware drivers which need the
> generic implementation for some "corner cases". 
> What do you thing?

I think you're brilliant!

Could you please do a patch to rename aes.c to aes-generic.c and
add the appropriate alias to it? Please add the aes alias to padlock
and geode while you're at it.

Thanks,
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