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SubjectRe: [PATCH] crypto: tcrypt: add option to not exit on success
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:37:27PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> > Would there be any objections to dropping the noexit parameter
> > entirely and just making its behavior the default? It would make
> > all users regardless of fips mode notice failures more readily.
> >
> I think thats a fine idea. Theres no reason that a user of the tcrypt module
> can't manually rmmod it when the testing is done. Doing it that way just seems
> more sane to me to begin with anyway.

No, tcrypt is only a relic for correctness testing. Its main
purpose these days is for speed testing. Having to rmmod it
is silly.

There's really no need to load tcrypt for correctness testing
anymore.

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