Re: [PATCH] crypto/arc4: now arc needs blockcipher support

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On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 06:13:46PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Since commit ce6dd368 ("crypto: arc4 - improve performance by adding
> ecb(arc4)) we need to pull in a blkcipher.
> 
> |ERROR: "crypto_blkcipher_type" [crypto/arc4.ko] undefined!
> |ERROR: "blkcipher_walk_done" [crypto/arc4.ko] undefined!
> |ERROR: "blkcipher_walk_virt" [crypto/arc4.ko] undefined!
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.  Thanks!

> On a side note: do we pull in the blkcipher block mode for each cipher now to
> gain some extra performance like the openssl project? I was under the
> impression that is in general not worth it.

You mean normal block ciphers? Does it really make that much
of a difference?

Cheers,
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