Re: Patching 2.4.6--help fixing 1 hunk that failed

[Adam Warner <lists@consulting.net.nz>]

On 07 Jul 2001 11:44:00 +0200, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> 
> well, I've cleaned up the 2.4.3.1, it should apply cleanly to a vanilla
> 2.4.6 linux kernel, I've put up the patch as patch-int-2.4.6.{bz2,gz} to
> 
> http://www.hvrlab.org/pub/crypto/
> 
> I've also taken the time to make a maintenaince release of the cryptoapi
> re-packagement of the international crypto patch (and includes some
> small cleanups still to be merged into the patch-version)
> 
> known problems with the international crypto patch on 2.4.x:
> 
> *) non-reentrant --> don't use it on SMP (unless you can enforce
> non-parallel execution of the transfer functions)
> if you want to do some work on it, please go ahead; I can tell you where
> you should begin to look at...

...said Herbert to the guy who needed help to fix a hunk failure :-)

Thanks for the info. So what would you recommend for a guy with a Dual
Celeron? Loop-AES ;-) (can anyone let me know if Loop-AES is SMP safe?)

Regards,
Adam



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