Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32calgorithm by new crypto API.

[Austin Zhang]

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 15:13 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Am I missing something here, or are you registering the crypto algorithm
> _unconditionally_ and then just causing init requests for it to fail on
> older hardware?  Wouldn't it be better to register the driver _only_
> when the hardware is capable? Or at least "if at least one cpu is
> capable".
Thanks, I will move it to module init.
> I think that should depend on CONFIG_X86? 
Thanks.

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