Merging ciphers into loop-AES

[Jari Ruusu]

Max Vozeler wrote:
> I think both points could be helped by having loop-AES and
> ciphers be one software package in one tarball. It would make it
> easier for users of ciphers to build and install the modules, and
> last but not least would make my life as distribution package
> maintainer a bit easier. :-)
> 
> Downsides: Uncompressed tarball grows by ~90k. Users who don't
> need/want ciphers still get them and, if the cipher modules were
> installed by default, an additional ~45k of disk space used.
> 
> What do you think?

There are cases where people are using kernel patch version of loop-AES, and
build and install those extra cipher modules without building loop-AES
module. So there is some need of ciphers package staying as separate
package.

Would it help if loop-AES Makefile detects presence of additional
loop_xxxx.c source files is its base directory, and compiles and installs
them all together? Your maintenance "work" would involve making sure that
all source files are in same directory.

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