On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 00:58 +0800, Andy Polyakov wrote:
> >> This patch adds support to Intel AES-NI instruction set for x86_64
> >> platform.
> > 
> > Cool. I'm relying on Andy to provide a more thorough review
> 
> Even after short glance I can tell there will be a lot of comments and 
> even work to do, but I'm planning to take it later... ... ... ... ...
> 
> > Also, if you have no philosophical objection, I think the file and symbol 
> > naming should be based on the interface rather than the manufacturer 
> > (particularly for "intel", who provide lots of h/w and interfaces that 
> > have nothing to do with AES-NI). Perhaps eng_aesni.c rather than 
> > eng_intel.c.
> 
> I second it. Ying, there is nothing preventing us from renaming files 
> and functions (assuming that you have no philosophical objections), but 
> *if* you choose to submit another patch with alternative naming, could 
> you look into crypto/modes and use it? At earlier occasion you commented 
> "hope that it can be merged quickly," but it was committed to OpenSSL 
> CVS prior I mentioned it... Or is it that you might have failed to pull 
> it to your repository, but then it's something we have no power to make 
> quicker...

It seems that crypto/modes is not compiled in libcrypto by default. The
following patch can be used to make it compiled. 

It should be a separate patch or just merged it into AES-NI patch?

---
 Makefile.org |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/Makefile.org
+++ b/Makefile.org
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ SDIRS=  \
        bn ec rsa dsa ecdsa dh ecdh dso engine \
        buffer bio stack lhash rand err \
        evp asn1 pem x509 x509v3 conf txt_db pkcs7 pkcs12 comp ocsp ui krb5 \
-       cms pqueue ts jpake
+       cms pqueue ts jpake modes
 # keep in mind that the above list is adjusted by ./Configure
 # according to no-xxx arguments...
 

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