Re: [PATCH 3/11] [CRYPTO] blkcipher: Merge ablkcipher and blkcipher into one option/module

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Hi Herbert.

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 04:48:41PM +0800, Herbert Xu (herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> [CRYPTO] blkcipher: Merge ablkcipher and blkcipher into one option/module
> 
> Now that we have the givcipher type, both blkcipher and ablkcipher algorithms
> will use it to create givcipher objects.  As such it no longer makes sense
> to split the system between ablkcipher and blkcipher.  In particular, both
> ablkcipher.c and blkcipher.c would need to use the givcipher type which has
> to reside in ablkcipher.c since it shares much code with it.
> 
> This patch merges the two Kconfig options as well as the modules into one.

This breaks cryptodev tree, since some devices other than cryptd selects
CRYPTO_ABLKCIPHER.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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