Re: [PATCH 8/9] crypto: x86/chacha - remove the skcipher algorithms

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 08:38:29PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
>
> Well, I forgot that an empty module_exit needs to be kept around for the module
> to be removable.  I'll send a patch that adds these back in, though I'm doubtful
> that anyone ever removes these modules in practice.

I just tried to remove chacha_x86_64 in order to make sure that I
was actually using the arch-optimised version of chacha and that's
how I noticed.

I remove the algorithm modules all the time because it's much easier
to rebuild one module rather than the whole kernel.

Cheers,
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