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From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: Add soft module dependency to load HW
 accelerated crypto modules
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:28:28 -0500
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:14:37AM -0800, Tim Chen wrote:
> We added the soft module dependency of various crypto algorithm's module alias
>  to generic crypto algorithm's module. This loads hardware accelerated
>  modules and uses them when available.
> 
This is great, but have any of the module load utilties been modified to
recognize and handle soft dependencies in the modinfo section? Last I checked
they hadn't.  Do you plan to add that functionality?

Neil