Re: [PATCH] lib/crypto: add prompts back to crypto libraries

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Tue Jan 11 2022 - 17:41:51 EST


On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 23:27, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 11:25 PM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 23:12, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Justin,
> > >
> > > These are library variables, which means they really have no sense in
> > > being user selectable. Internal things to the kernel depend on them,
> > > or they don't. They're always only dependencies.
> > >
> >
> > But what does any of this have to do with blake2s? These are unrelated
> > changes that are not even described in the commit log of the original
> > patch, so let's just revert them now. If changes are needed here, we
> > can discuss them on the linux-crypto mailing list after the merge
> > window.
>
> The lib crypto stuff moved outside of `if CRYPTO`, so if you add those
> titles back, the root menu is going to be filled with things. I'm
> working on some patches now moving lib/crypto/ things into lib
> strictly, so the dependency is one way. I can try adding back the
> labels there if you want.
>

Ah, right. In that case, can we fold in something like the below?

diff --git a/lib/crypto/Kconfig b/lib/crypto/Kconfig
index a3e41b7a8054..179041b60294 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/Kconfig
+++ b/lib/crypto/Kconfig
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

+menu "Crypto library routines"
+
config CRYPTO_LIB_AES
tristate

@@ -120,3 +122,5 @@ config CRYPTO_LIB_SHA256

config CRYPTO_LIB_SM4
tristate
+
+endmenu