Re: [2.6.11-rc4-mm1 patch] fix buggy IEEE80211_CRYPT_* selects

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:41:50PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > Not really that easy.  For x86 we have
> >
> >         aes
> >         aes-586
> >         aes-via
>
>
> Where is aes-via?

drivers/crypto


> > And my own personal custom-kernel preference is to use the C version of 
> > the code on my x86 and x86-64 boxes.
>
>
> That's already not possible today.

It should be.

        Jeff