Re: crypto API and IBM z990 hardware support

Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@redhat.com)
Thu, 10 Jul 2003 01:55:26 -0400


>> I totally disagree. I think the way we do things today is _STUPID_.
>> We put arch code far away from the generic version which makes finding
>> stuff very difficult for people inspecting the code for the first time.
>>
>> For example, the fact that I have to go groveling in
>> arch/foo/lib/whoknowswhatfile.whoknowswhatextension to look at
>> the memcpy/checksum/whatever implementation is completely busted.

> E.g. most of include/net/tcp.h pretty much only matters for
> net/ipv4/. It would be so nice if a grep -w thing *.[ch] in
> net/ipv4/ would really find all uses of "thing".

I always do this:

cd linux
find . \( -name 'Make*' -o -name '*.[hcS]' \) > src.list
cat src.list| LANG=C xargs grep foo

It's only a CPU time, really.

-- Pete
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