On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 08:22:42AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> So what finally got exported out of crypto/ to the rest of the kernel
> was just the crypto_alloc_xxx() wrapper. That resolves to a call to
> crypto_alloc_base() in crypto/api.c, which first loads the specific
> low-level algo modules, and then proceeds to crypto_init_ops(), which
> itself may, say, resolve to a crypto_init_digest_ops() -- the only
> interface exported from digest.c.
The mid-level code such as digest.c are only built-in because
they are legacy code. All the new mid-level code such as
blkcipher/hash are registered dynamically.
Once all the digest stuff have been converted to hash digest.c
will be removed.
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