Re: [PATCH] crypto: aes-ni - Don't print message with KERN_ERR onold system

[Herbert Xu]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:20:16AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> When the aes-intel module is loaded on a system that does not have the
> AES instructions, it prints
> 
>     Intel AES-NI instructions are not detected.
> 
> at level KERN_ERR.  Since aes-intel is aliased to "aes" it will be tried
> whenever anything uses AES and spam the console.  This doesn't match
> existing practice for how to handle "no hardware" when initializing a
> module, so downgrade the message to KERN_INFO.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@xxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.  Thanks Roland!
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