Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:39:00 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: Initcall ordering problem (TTY vs modprobe vs MD5) and cryptomgr problem |
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Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> wrote: > > Of course in practice without the tests your boot would probably just > have failed. Badly-decrypted root partitions tend to be noticed as > such long before trying to write to them. Then you would have bitched > on the list and the driver would have been fixed or removed faster > than having to wait for you (or other people with the hardware issue) > to notice the spew in dmesg.
So you'd rather have a box that doesn't boot rather than one that automatically falls back to software crypto allowing you to diagnose and report the problem.
Yes that makes a lot of sense.
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