Re: [PATCH] modules: add support for soft module dependencies

2013-07-24 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:32:02AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > Herbert Xu writes: > > Hi Rusty: > > > > I don't know why this patch never went into the kernel, even > > though the corresponding features have been added to modprobe > > in most if not all distros. > > Because Andreas never sent m

Crypto Fixes for 3.11

2013-07-24 Thread Herbert Xu
Hi Linus: This push fixes a memory corruption issue in caam, as well as reverting the new optimised crct10dif implementation as it breaks boot on initrd systems. Hopefully crct10dif will be reinstated once the supporting code is added so that it doesn't break boot. Please pull from git://git.ke

[PATCH] modules: add support for soft module dependencies

2013-07-24 Thread Herbert Xu
Hi Rusty: I don't know why this patch never went into the kernel, even though the corresponding features have been added to modprobe in most if not all distros. This is required for dependencies on crypto modules such as crc32c where the dependency is only visible at run-time, which means that de

Re: [BUG] 3.11 boot failure caused by commit crypto

2013-07-24 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:28:28AM +0800, Zhao Hongjiang wrote: > When i boot my system with the latest 3.11-rc2 kernel, something occur as > follow: > > Waiting for device /dev/disk/by-id/... to appear: Could not find > //dev/disk/by-id/... > Want me to fall back to /dev/disk/by-id