Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32c algorithm by new crypto API.

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 15:13 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:

Am I missing something here, or are you registering the crypto algorithm
_unconditionally_ and then just causing init requests for it to fail on
older hardware?  Wouldn't it be better to register the driver _only_
when the hardware is capable? Or at least "if at least one cpu is
capable".

Thanks, I will move it to module init.

I think that should depend on CONFIG_X86? 

Thanks.