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From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] crypto: qat - Convert to new AEAD interface
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 06:42:04 -0700
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On 08/04/2015 06:32 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> What if someone calls adf_remove? For a software implementation
> you can prevent the algorithm from going away by holding module
> reference counts.  But a device can always be removed and you're
> not going to stop that no matter how many reference counts you
> hold :)

No way! It is defined as static ;)