Re: [CRYPTO] is it really optimized ?

From: Francis Moreau
Date: Tue Apr 17 2007 - 12:19:02 EST


On 4/17/07, Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If there are another users, then flag should not be set.

depends if there's a 'generic' algo that can be used at the same time.
Admin should know that.

If there are no another users, your code already has exclusive access.

sorry I don't understand that.

One can not know if there will be any additional users at all (consider
the case when new encrypted block device or ipsec negotiation started
some time after module was loaded).


well I should say administrator should know.

--
Francis
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