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Re: select on non-existing Kconfig option CRC32C

From Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: select on non-existing Kconfig option CRC32C
Date 2016-06-15 16:50 +0200
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Hi Andreas,

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 12:00:59PM +0200, Andreas Ziegler wrote:
> 
> your patch "s390/crc32-vx: add crypto API module for optimized CRC-32
> algorithms" showed up in linux-next today (next-20160615) as commit 	364148e0b195.
> 
> The patch defines the Kconfig option CRYPTO_CRC32_S390 which 'select's CRC32C.
> However, this should probably have been CRYPTO_CRC32C, as CRC32C does not exist.

Thanks for informing me.  Actually, the crc32-vx driver requires the
__crc32c_le() function which is available by selecting CONFIG_CRC32. There is
no need for CRYPTO_CRC32C.  So this can be safely removed.

> Should I prepare a trivial patch to fix this up or would you like to do that on
> your side?

Martin have already corrected the patch.

Thanks and kind regards,
  Hendrik

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select on non-existing Kconfig option CRC32C Andreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@fau.de> - 2016-06-15 12:10 +0200
  Re: select on non-existing Kconfig option CRC32C Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-06-15 16:50 +0200
  Re: select on non-existing Kconfig option CRC32C Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2016-06-15 16:50 +0200

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