From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 04/23] zinc: ChaCha20 x86_64 implementation
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 05:20:06 +0200
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Hi Herbert,

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 5:18 AM Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > size    old     new
> > ----    ----    ----
> > 0       62      52
>
> What is the old column? Is it the existing x86-64 implementation
> in the kernel or something else? This needs to be made clear in the
> patch description.

Good idea. I'll make that more clear.

> The same comment from the previous patch also stands here.  Please
> ensure that we only have one copy of chacha x86-64 code in the kernel.
> Either replace the existing one right here or in a follow-up patch
> in the same series.

Yes indeed this happens within this same series.

Jason