Re: Link order of the AES-module(s)

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On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:20:12PM +0100, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
> 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.

Right as long as the data structures for registering algorithms
do not require initialisations this is OK.

Thanks,
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