Re: Initcall ordering problem (TTY vs modprobe vs MD5) and cryptomgr problem

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Because it can save data.  Each cryptographic algorithm (such as
> AES) may have multiple impelmentations, some of which are hardware-
> based.

Umm. The _developer_ had better test the thing. That is absolutely
_zero_ excuse for then forcing every boot for every poor user to re-do
the test over and over again.

Guys, this comes up every single time: you as a developer may think
that your code is really important, but get over yourself already.
It's not so important that everybody must be forced to do it.

                      Linus
--
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


[Index of Archives]     [Kernel]     [Gnu Classpath]     [Gnu Crypto]     [DM Crypt]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]

  Powered by Linux