Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Wrap crc_t10dif function all to use cryptotransform framework

From: Tim Chen
Date: Wed May 01 2013 - 22:59:35 EST


On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 11:27 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:40:30PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> >
> > If I allocate the transform under the mod init instead, how can I make
> > sure that the fast version is already registered if I have it compiled
> > in? It is not clear to me how that's done looking at the libcrc32c
> > code.
>
> This is only an issue when everything is built-in to the kernel.
>
> In that case we could make the crc implementations register at a
> point earlier than device_initcall, but no earlier than subsys_initcall
> since that's where cryptomgr sits.

I've spun version 3 of this patch series to address the concerns about
version 2. The patches are sent separately.

Thanks.

Tim


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