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

From: Eric Biggers

Date: Thu Feb 26 2026 - 14:55:39 EST


On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 03:46:04PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 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.

- Eric