Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:09:31 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] do not compile AMD Geode's hwcrypto driver as a module per default |
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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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