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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: Add soft module dependency to load HW accelerated crypto modules
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:04:16 +1030
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Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> writes:

> On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 15:28 -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
>> 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
>> 
>
> Rusty,
>
> Do you know if the upstream modprobe has the fixes (or plan) to
> recognize soft dependencies?  I was under the impression that it
> is the case.

Marco CC'd...

Cheers,
Rusty.