Re: Initcall ordering problem (TTY vs modprobe vs MD5) andcryptomgr problem

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Aug 05 2010 - 21:17:36 EST


On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 02:01:03AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
>
> but it's not being found by the crypto routines. By GIT bisection, I note
> that this problem is introduced in the following commit:
>
> commit 0b767f96164b2b27488e3daa722ff16e89d49314
> Author: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Jun 3 20:53:43 2010 +1000
>
> crypto: testmgr - add an option to disable cryptoalgos' self-tests

Indeed this changeset is buggy. It makes cryptomgr return a value
as if it was not loaded. This triggers the module load.

I'll send you a patch.

Thanks,
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