Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32c algorithm by new crypto API.

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 05:35:07AM -0400, Austin Zhang wrote:
>
> +static int crc32c_intel_cra_init(struct crypto_tfm *tfm)
> +{
> +	u32 *key = crypto_tfm_ctx(tfm);
> +
> +	*key = ~0;
> +
> +	tfm->crt_ahash.reqsize = sizeof(u32);
> +
> +	if (cpu_has_xmm4_2)
> +		return 0;
> +	else
> +		return -1;
> +}

This check needs to be moved to the module init function and
if it fails the module should not register the algorithm.

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