On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 05:08:26PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote: > > And why would you want to use them in kernel module? Please explain > > that in the patch that exports them, and please send that patch in the > > same series as the patches adding the users. > > we're using it in the modules for testing our crypto driver on our CI system. > is it mandatory to upstream it if we want to use this function? Yes. And chances are that you do not actaully need these functions either, but to suggest a better placement I need to actually see the code.