Re: [PATCH]crypto: Fix algorithm and driver duplicate registered

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:47:24PM -0500, Youquan,Song wrote:
>
> The alg->cra_name and alg->cra_driver_name, from the description,
> cra_name is the algorithm name and cra_driver_name is the driver name.

For each algorithm you may have an arbitrary number of drivers
implementing it.  The driver name must be unique.  However,
duplicates are allowed so that a new version of a driver may
be loaded while the older instances of it are still in use.

> But when I read the code, I often get confuse about these two names.
> They often mix each other.  
> 
> Can you give me some instruction about them? or Can we make them more clear? Thanks. 

Well can you tell me what exactly confuses you?

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