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

[Eric Biggers]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 11:54:40AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> 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.

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git/log/?h=libcrypto-fixes

I adjusted the commit titles to make it clear that the changes are to
the help text, not e.g. to selections of the symbols.

    crypto: Clean up help text for CRYPTO_CRC32

- Eric