Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933933AbXIBBqv (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:46:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933349AbXIBBqn (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:46:43 -0400 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:1411 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933221AbXIBBqm (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:46:42 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 09:46:10 +0800 From: Herbert Xu To: Satyam Sharma Cc: Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Crypto Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 Message-ID: <20070902014610.GA15533@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20070831215822.26e1432b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070901155353.8a09db69.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20070831235815.a09c7865.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070901085429.GA7213@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1044 Lines: 24 On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 02:39:15AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > Tangential, but I've often wondered what are the upsides of keeping > CONFIG_CRYPTO_ALGAPI as a separate config option in the first place? Every > single item in crypto/ ends up "select"ing it (directly or transitively) > so it makes all sense to just do away with it and keep it == CONFIG_CRYPTO > in the Makefile, thusly: NACK. ALGAPI exists so that it can be built as a module, as opposed to CRYPTO which is always built-in. It's already invisible to the user so I don't see why you have a problem with it. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/