Re: [PATCH] add MODULE_ALIAS for x86_64 aes

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Aug 08 2005 - 12:53:01 EST


Olaf Hering <olh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> modprobe aes does not work on x86_64. i386 has a similar line,
> this could be the right fix. Would be nice to have in 2.6.13 final.
>

What do you mean by "this could be the right fix"? Did it work?

>
> Index: linux-2.6.13-rc6-aes/arch/x86_64/crypto/aes.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.13-rc6-aes.orig/arch/x86_64/crypto/aes.c
> +++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-aes/arch/x86_64/crypto/aes.c
> @@ -322,3 +322,4 @@ module_exit(aes_fini);
>
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Rijndael (AES) Cipher Algorithm");
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> +MODULE_ALIAS("aes");
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