Re: [PATCH v2] lib/crypto: add prompts back to crypto libraries

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Wed Jan 12 2022 - 09:12:10 EST


On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 3:08 PM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 at 15:08, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 3:06 PM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 at 15:05, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > > This commit also needs this snippet:
> > > >
> > >
> > > Why?
> >
> > So that the menu of crypto library options is inside of the library
> > menu. Otherwise this will appear inside of the _root_ menu, which
> > isn't what we want.
>
> Why not? I think that's fine.

It's really not appropriate there. Look:

- Justin vanilla: https://i.imgur.com/14UBpML.png
- Justin + Jason: https://i.imgur.com/lDfZnma.png

We really don't want another top level menu. We're not that important.
Rather, crypto libraries are but one ordinary subset of ordinary
libraries, just like how the build system does it too.