On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 04:59:29PM -0500, Robert Elliott wrote:
> Reword prints that the module is not being loaded (although
> it otherwise qualifies) because performance would be suboptimal
> on the particular CPU model.
>
> Although modules are not supposed to print unless they're loaded
> and active, this is an existing exception.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/crypto/blowfish_glue.c | 5 +----
> arch/x86/crypto/camellia_glue.c | 5 +----
> arch/x86/crypto/des3_ede_glue.c | 2 +-
> arch/x86/crypto/twofish_glue_3way.c | 5 +----
> 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/blowfish_glue.c b/arch/x86/crypto/blowfish_glue.c
> index 27b7aed9a488..8d4ecf406dee 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/crypto/blowfish_glue.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/blowfish_glue.c
> @@ -320,10 +320,7 @@ static int __init blowfish_init(void)
> return -ENODEV;
>
> if (!force && is_blacklisted_cpu()) {
> - printk(KERN_INFO
> - "blowfish-x86_64: performance on this CPU "
> - "would be suboptimal: disabling "
> - "blowfish-x86_64.\n");
> + pr_info("CPU-optimized crypto module not loaded, crypto optimization performance on this CPU would be suboptimal\n");
This is a comma splice. You need some sort of conjunction.
But also: it's not like the user can do anything about this. Why clutter
dmesg? Seems like we'd be better off without these messages?
