Hello Herbert, this is just for the protocol. If you build the two aes modules into the kernel (1x asm + 1x generic) than the asm module is initialized before the generic one and even before the crypto API itself. This was allready the case before I started to dig around :) This is currently not a problem because the module itself isn't used at that time and the init code doesn't do much. Sebastian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html