Re: [PATCH (v2)] crypto: Remove pointless padlock module

[Simon Arlott]

On 20/05/07 04:15, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 08:28:17PM +0100, Simon Arlott wrote:
> > It should be a bool that doesn't select anything, the AES and SHA modules 
> > will select CRYPTO_ALGAPI. It could also depend on MVIAC3_2 || MVIA_C7 
> > instead of X86_32.
>
> Having it as a tristate means that we don't have to duplicate the
> dependencies and selects that each padlock algorithm would otherwise
> do.  So is there actually a problem with it being a tristate?

It has nothing to compile as a module, so M makes no sense. Each algorithm 
already selects CRYPTO_ALGAPI indirectly.

--
Simon Arlott
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