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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3.11-rc1] crypto: Fix boot failure due to module dependency.
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 04:21:09PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> The issue here seems to be the dynamic binding nature of the crypto
> subsystem. When something needs crypto, it will request the appropriate
> crypto module (e.g. crct10dif), which may race with detecting a specific
> hardware accelerator based on CPUID or device information (e.g.
> crct10dif_pclmul).
>
> RAID has effectively the same issue, and we just "solved" it by
> compiling in all the accelerators into the top-level module.

I think for crypto the simplest solution is to not do CPUID-based
loading. Then crypto users will simply load the module alias which
causes modprobe to load all modules providing that alias.

Cheers,
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