[illumos-Developer] webrev: removal of closed kcfd

Joerg Schilling Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de
Sat Sep 4 15:15:26 PDT 2010


"Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:

> This is a first pass at removing the closed kcfd.  It removes the
> daemon, and also does away with all fips and module verification, and
> runs the kernel threads for crypto using lwps in the kernel rather than
> relying on a daemon.  (Thanks to richlowe for the suggestion.)
>
> http://mexico.purplecow.org/gdamore/webrev/nokcfd/

Why did you remove fips?

If you could tell us a bit more about the general background ideas for the 
changes, I could have a look the the webrev. Otherwise, I am not sure how to
do a sufficient revire.

Jörg

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