Re: linux-next: Tree for Dec 15 (fs/ubifs/ causes problems in fs/crypto/)

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Thu Dec 15 2016 - 17:46:12 EST


Randy,

On 15.12.2016 19:13, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 12/14/16 19:21, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Please do not add any material for v4.11 to your linux-next included
>> branches until after v4.10-rc1 has been released.
>>
>> Changes since 20161214:
>>
>
> on x86_64:
>
> when CONFIG_BLOCK is not enabled:
>
> warning: (UBIFS_FS_ENCRYPTION) selects FS_ENCRYPTION which has unmet direct dependencies (BLOCK)

UBIFS does not depend on CONFIG_BLOCK but fs/crypto/ does.
As short-term solution we can make UBIFS_FS_ENCRYPTION depend on CONFIG_BLOCK,
a better solution would be extracting all block specific stuff from fs/crypto/crypto.c
to another file.

Thanks,
//richard