linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.11-rc1] crypto: Fix boot failure due to moduledependency.

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Date:	Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:23:48 -0700
From:	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.11-rc1] crypto: Fix boot failure due to
 moduledependency.

On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 22:49 +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Looks like a bug in whatever is creating the initrd as it isn't
> > including modules necessary for the boot.
> 
> It turned out that it is already wrong as of creating modules.dep.
> 
>   # grep crc /lib/modules/3.11.0-rc1/modules.dep
>   kernel/crypto/crct10dif.ko:
>   kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.ko: kernel/lib/crc-t10dif.ko
>   kernel/lib/crc-t10dif.ko:
> 
> modules.dep says
> 
>   (1) sd_mod.ko depends on crc-t10dif.ko
>   (2) crc-t10dif.ko does not depend on crct10dif.ko

Yes, the generator of modules.dep does not seem to pick up the right
dependency.  

> 
> but commit 2d31e518 made crc-t10dif.ko depend on crct10dif.ko , didn't it?
> 
> crct10dif.ko need to be loaded before crc-t10dif.ko is loaded, but doing
> 
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
> index 35da513..53ee0fd 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig
> @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ config CRC_T10DIF
>  	tristate "CRC calculation for the T10 Data Integrity Field"
>  	select CRYPTO
>  	select CRYPTO_CRCT10DIF
> +	depends on CRYPTO_CRCT10DIF

Herbert, seems like modules.dep generator wants explicit

- 	select CRYPTO_CRCT10DIF
+	depends on CRYPTO_CRCT10DIF

But it seems to me like it should have known CRC_T10DIF needs
CRYPTO_CRCT10DIF when we do 
	select CRYPTO_CRCT10DIF

Your thoughts?

Thanks.

Tim

>  	help
>  	  This option is only needed if a module that's not in the
>  	  kernel tree needs to calculate CRC checks for use with the
> 
> causes below warning.
> 
>   crypto/Kconfig:379:     symbol CRYPTO_CRCT10DIF is selected by CRC_T10DIF
>   warning: (BLK_DEV_SD && SCSI_LPFC && SCSI_DEBUG) selects CRC_T10DIF which has unmet direct dependencies (CRYPTO_CRCT10DIF)


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