From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [2.6.11-rc4-mm1 patch] fix buggy IEEE80211_CRYPT_* selects Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:56:07 +0100 Message-ID: <20050302215607.GF4608@stusta.de> References: <20050223014233.6710fd73.akpm@osdl.org> <20050226113123.GJ3311@stusta.de> <42256078.1040002@pobox.com> <20050302140833.GD4608@stusta.de> <42261004.4000501@pobox.com> <20050302123829.51dbc44b.akpm@osdl.org> <42262B08.2040401@pobox.com> <20050302131817.2e61805f.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff Garzik , netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050302131817.2e61805f.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:18:17PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > > Thing is, CRYPTO_AES on only selectable on x86. > > > > You're thinking about CRYPTO_AES_586. But looking at crypto/Kconfig, > > the dependencies are a bit weird: > > > > config CRYPTO_AES > > tristate "AES cipher algorithms" > > depends on CRYPTO && !(X86 && !X86_64) > > config CRYPTO_AES_586 > > tristate "AES cipher algorithms (i586)" > > depends on CRYPTO && (X86 && !X86_64) > > That's pretty broken, isn't it? > > Would be better to just do: > > config CRYPTO_AES > select CRYPTO_AES_586 if (X86 && !X86_64) > select CRYPTO_AES_OTHER if !(X86 && !X86_64) > > and hide CRYPTO_AES_586 and CRYPTO_AES_OTHER from the outside world. http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0502.3/0518.html http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0502.3/0523.html cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed