From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 59974282F01; Mon, 2 Mar 2026 23:41:54 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1772494914; cv=none; b=Ltxb+NJIabT8MiCbz+7V8mkVTfh1KhIveDeMOaC7yoXVJ9IXAIUmt8/UtS9TZwYQErhwOFub6d9NbB9j3wRYTcF4VrCaTb22R8FIc4YwvPmXBuJsVcCgwVGo1h8tXWcywFTkkDcFW0VTcjIrO5nXKR2rjVEsM52kxgNTRsPeCXo= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1772494914; c=relaxed/simple; bh=1LxuzaBs1KjEcjfNJq1K+KBvh1Y3reR7Da1++7iZ0do=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=nhiJ39ooJFTa+JXH67RJy5o7VLxgL7a1y1Mw+EHc+YFjOwh9oB6L1uJ0n1pQkudmHPfaKSSiUkSfQsc+o90ffer4a0xydk1wpp1gg9L/6UepG2Ap+4JzsiJHK8SgyiUx4K1Mh63gNrBtwfzKNPhliYiM/PTn9fhk3p36oDFUo8o= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=PC0hpR+S; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="PC0hpR+S" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9A02BC19423; Mon, 2 Mar 2026 23:41:53 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1772494913; bh=1LxuzaBs1KjEcjfNJq1K+KBvh1Y3reR7Da1++7iZ0do=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=PC0hpR+Sg7ncrBtFqmRdtF0WNYo5MufvJ3kkUxuAMy897roCo1zW7EoMGPNzgSfVd kItTk3iZQI3N59JnPRwQlgt5nrK2RJwCp6pGFLtI5PuK869ZU2hbf6UxfDGKRwQV8W 0b5zTQEJutAuBEblgNQxHpU/RqPSQn5mLCTt1ThBz1f/2AV3wl+wD/KqD1xWbGv5A2 jjfMz6vBxORfC45PyGlQe/rjFRDuGGXg7cZRZCp2vjFNcep2egIS05sTEmNyzgK8/Y hv67uPCyBF5/Yv9aniqt4+9sCFsou/O+GE2GZqn5mWipcEj8z2zAQINY+rRfljX+u/ fq4Im+JLMRsBA== Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 15:41:49 -0800 From: Eric Biggers To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Herbert Xu , "David S . Miller" , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] crypto: Drop stale usages in various help texts Message-ID: <20260302234149.GB20209@quark> References: <20260226195440.GH2251@sol> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260226195440.GH2251@sol> On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 11:54:40AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 03:46:04PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This patch series drops stale references to subsystems that are using > > various crypto algoritms. It was triggered by "make oldconfig" in > > v7.0-rc1 showing new prompts about BLAKE2b, SHA-256, xxHash, and CRC32c > > algorithms. When querying these symbols, the corresponding help texts > > incorrectly claim they are used by btrfs. > > > > Notw that even if correct, there is no need for such references, as all > > users should select the needed symbols anyway. > > > > Geert Uytterhoeven (5): > > crypto: Drop stale CRYPTO_BLAKE2B usage > > crypto: Drop stale CRYPTO_SHA256 usage > > crypto: Drop stale CRYPTO_XXHASH usage > > crypto: Drop stale CRYPTO_CRC32C usage > > crypto: Drop stale CRYPTO_CRC32 usage > > > > crypto/Kconfig | 9 --------- > > 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) > > Thanks for cleaning this up! > > If there are no objections I'd like take these through libcrypto-fixes, > given that they are related to the library conversions. Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git/log/?h=libcrypto-fixes I adjusted the commit titles to make it clear that the changes are to the help text, not e.g. to selections of the symbols. crypto: Clean up help text for CRYPTO_CRC32 - Eric