Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Wrap crc_t10dif function all to use cryptotransform framework

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon Apr 29 2013 - 23:28:18 EST


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:40:30PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
>
> If I allocate the transform under the mod init instead, how can I make
> sure that the fast version is already registered if I have it compiled
> in? It is not clear to me how that's done looking at the libcrc32c
> code.

This is only an issue when everything is built-in to the kernel.

In that case we could make the crc implementations register at a
point earlier than device_initcall, but no earlier than subsys_initcall
since that's where cryptomgr sits.

Cheers,
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