Re: [PATCH 0/5] crypto: Drop stale usages in various help texts

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Eric,

On Tue, 3 Mar 2026 at 00:42, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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:
> > > 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

Thank you!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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