On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:18:17PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Thing is, CRYPTO_AES on only selectable on x86.
> >
> > You're thinking about CRYPTO_AES_586. But looking at crypto/Kconfig,
> > the dependencies are a bit weird:
> >
> > config CRYPTO_AES
> > tristate "AES cipher algorithms"
> > depends on CRYPTO && !(X86 && !X86_64)
> > config CRYPTO_AES_586
> > tristate "AES cipher algorithms (i586)"
> > depends on CRYPTO && (X86 && !X86_64)
>
> That's pretty broken, isn't it?
>
> Would be better to just do:
>
> config CRYPTO_AES
> select CRYPTO_AES_586 if (X86 && !X86_64)
> select CRYPTO_AES_OTHER if !(X86 && !X86_64)
>
> and hide CRYPTO_AES_586 and CRYPTO_AES_OTHER from the outside world.
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0502.3/0518.html
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0502.3/0523.html
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