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SubjectRe: [PATCH] do not compile AMD Geode's hwcrypto driver as a module per default
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 12:25:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Sad, 2006-10-21 am 10:17 +0200, ysgrifennodd Borislav Petkov:
> > This one should be probably made dependent on some #define saying that the cpu
> > is an AMD and has the LX Geode crypto hardware built in. Turn it off for now.
>
> That makes no real sense. Most kernel selections are "run on lots of
> processor types", we thus want as much as possible modular, built and
> available.
>
> The existing defaults seem quite sane.


(sorry for the duplicate send but the yahoo mailserver is having problems :()

... should the duration of the the kernel compilation be prolonged then by
unneeded modules? Does the majority of people really use that crypto hardware or
is it a small percentage only, we don't know but it also doesn't seem pretty sensible to do
'make oldconfig' and go and turn off all modules that I don't need/have by hand;
it gets quite annoying sometimes too.

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Regards/Gruß,
Boris.
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