[Openswan dev] ocf debian

[David McCullough]

Jivin Harald Jenny lays it down ...
...
> > > > Well I would rather call it an option, not a requirements - maybe there are
> > > > people out there who don't want to use OCF?
> > > 
> > > David, can we have a module parameter for OCF? eg modprobe ipsec ocf={0,1} ?
> > 
> > What would the parameter do ?
> 
> I guess enable or disable use of OCF ;-) ?

But you can do that by not loading any OCF drivers.

> > If this is to enable/disable ocf,  then we have the problem of loading with
> > needing ocf to be loaded.
> 
> You mean when compiled with OCF we must load something?

If klips has OCF support included,  then the OCF driver must be loaded.
There are a couple of ways around this.

1) use OCF like a DLL,  load it then ask for entry points.

2) make a klips-ocf modules that loads and registers with klips to do OCF
   processing.  We could do the same for cryptoapi and the internal cryhpto
   then.

> > I don't think it's useful,  OCF support is a noop if you don't load and OCF
> > drivers.
> 
> It would be bypassed completely?


If OCF has no drivers loaded,  it does nothing.

> > > >> Harald, let's focus on getting the ocf dkms package going? That's the big one
> > > >> for everyone right now.
> > > >
> > > > I can prepare a package for you but it won't be ready before next week, about
> > > > inclusion into standard Debian we will have to wait after Squeeze release.


Cheers,
Davidm

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