Re: Adding opencrypto, crypto acceelerator to GENERIC kernels?

[Daniel Carosone <dan%geek.com.au@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 05:26:47PM -0800, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> +/* 
> + * cryptodevallowsoft is (intended to be) sysctl'able, controlling
> + * access to hardware versus software transforms as below:
> + *
> + * cryptodevallowsoft < 0:  Force userlevel requests to use software
> + *                              transforms, always
> + * cryptodevallowsoft = 0:  Use hardware if present, grant userlevel
> + *                              requests for non-accelerated transforms
> + *                              (handling the latter in software)
> + * cryptodevallowsoft > 0:  Allow user requests only for transforms which
> + *                               are hardware-accelerated.
> + */

The naming of this seems back-assward to the values, where 0 is
usually interpreted as "false".

--
Dan.