Re: enable padlock on x86_64

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Sat Mar 14 2009 - 07:53:20 EST


* Ingo Molnar | 2009-03-14 12:47:32 [+0100]:

>thanks, looks good. We can apply #1 to -tip just fine - but a
>drivers/crypto/ change should go via the crypto tree. Can the
>crypto tree apply #2 without having #1 right away? [i.e. will it
>still build and boot fine - even though the padlock
>functionality might not be fully present on 32-bit? ]

Yep, it is fine.
#1 in, #2 not will not result in any difference to what we have now.
#2 in, #1 not will result in "padlock not detected" while loading the
module and -ENODEV.

>Then in 2.6.30 once both the x86 tree and the crypto tree are
>merged we'll have both changes combined.
>
>Does that sound good?
I'm fine with this, but last word is Herbert's :)

> Ingo

Sebastian
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