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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 06:50:07 -0700
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On 08/04/2015 06:44 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 06:42:04AM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
>> > 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 ;)
> It's exported as a PCI device, no? PCI devices can be removed
> at any time through sysfs.

right.