Re: [Madwifi-devel] reason for CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES requirement?

[Michael R. <ma...@no...>]

Hi all.

> ccmp when no aes support is in their kernel. However, a sanity check was
> later introduced, and Matthew has given me a reason for that, which I
> can no longer recall.

In result of the change that was committed in r1641 at least the check for
CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES now is obsolete and was removed in r1642. Felix is
working on another patch that makes the software crypto stuff totally
optional, as long as the used card supports hardware crypto acceleration
(which is almost every Atheros-based card).

We speculated a bit in #madwifi today if the software crypto dependancy
might be void. I vaguely remember that there was an actual reason for the
requirement of the softcrypto stuff, but I don't recall it anymore. Maybe
someone else has an idea.

Bye, Mike