Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> wrote:
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>
> Of course in practice without the tests your boot would probably just
> have failed.  Badly-decrypted root partitions tend to be noticed as
> such long before trying to write to them.  Then you would have bitched
> on the list and the driver would have been fixed or removed faster
> than having to wait for you (or other people with the hardware issue)
> to notice the spew in dmesg.

So you'd rather have a box that doesn't boot rather than one
that automatically falls back to software crypto allowing you
to diagnose and report the problem.

Yes that makes a lot of sense.

Thanks,
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