From: Herbert Xu on
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 07:42:27PM -0500, Youquan,Song wrote:
> when load aesni-intel driver,kernel will report no test for some algorithm
> with AES-NI. The strange information as following:
>
> alg: No test for __aes-aesni (__driver-aes-aesni)
> alg: No test for __ecb-aes-aesni (__driver-ecb-aes-aesni)
> alg: No test for __cbc-aes-aesni (__driver-cbc-aes-aesni)
> alg: No test for __ecb-aes-aesni (cryptd(__driver-ecb-aes-aesni)
>
> crypto_alg's cra_name is use to descript algorithm itself, do not care the
> concrete implement. So this patch unify them and also can fix the algorithm
> implementation without test.
>
> Signed-off-by: Youquan, Song <youquan.song(a)intel.com>

No this is bogus. The algorithm name is specifically set to these
values because they're not meant to be used directly by anyone other
than aesni.

Cheers,
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