Re: [PATCH v1 03/12] crypto: qat - address recursive dependency when fw signing is enabled

[Herbert Xu]

On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 05:44:21PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> We're going to add firmware module signing support, but when we do
> this we end up with the following recursive dependency. Fix this by
> just depending on FW_LOADER, which is typically always enabled
> anyway.
> 
> mcgrof@ergon ~/linux-next (git::master)$ make allnoconfig
> scripts/kconfig/conf  --allnoconfig Kconfig
> crypto/Kconfig:15:error: recursive dependency detected!
> crypto/Kconfig:15:      symbol CRYPTO is selected by SYSDATA_SIG
> init/Kconfig:1880:      symbol SYSDATA_SIG is selected by FIRMWARE_SIG
> drivers/base/Kconfig:88:        symbol FIRMWARE_SIG depends on FW_LOADER
> drivers/base/Kconfig:80:        symbol FW_LOADER is selected by CRYPTO_DEV_QAT
> drivers/crypto/qat/Kconfig:1:   symbol CRYPTO_DEV_QAT is selected by CRYPTO_DEV_QAT_DH895xCC
> drivers/crypto/qat/Kconfig:13:  symbol CRYPTO_DEV_QAT_DH895xCC depends on CRYPTO

This doesn't look like a real cycle to me so perhaps we can fix
kbuild to understand this?

Cheers,
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