Re: [PATCH] [crypto] load the SHA1[1|256] module by an alias

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* Herbert Xu | 2007-10-05 22:20:22 [+0800]:

>On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 03:50:56PM +0200, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
>>
>> I did not find a module_mutex. We hold a readlock of crypto_alg_sem
>> within the crypto subsystem and request_module() increments
>> kmod_concurrent (which may not exceed a certain limit). 
>
>However, it's still good to remove this code since doing a nested
>modprobe of "sha" within a modprobe of "sha" just feels wrong.

Yes it feels wrong. It even may show that the fallback is not available
if padlock is loaded before the generic ones.

Sebastian
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