linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 170/268] crypto: crc32c

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Message-Id: <1453926929-17663-171-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2016 12:33:51 -0800
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 170/268] crypto: crc32c - Fix crc32c soft dependency

4.2.8-ckt3 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>

commit fd7f6727102a1ccf6b4c1dfcc631f9b546526b26 upstream.

I don't think it makes sense for a module to have a soft dependency
on itself. This seems quite cyclic by nature and I can't see what
purpose it could serve.

OTOH libcrc32c calls crypto_alloc_shash("crc32c", 0, 0) so it pretty
much assumes that some incarnation of the "crc32c" hash algorithm has
been loaded. Therefore it makes sense to have the soft dependency
there (as crc-t10dif does.)

Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 crypto/crc32c_generic.c | 1 -
 lib/libcrc32c.c         | 1 +
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/crypto/crc32c_generic.c b/crypto/crc32c_generic.c
index 06f1b60..4c0a0e2 100644
--- a/crypto/crc32c_generic.c
+++ b/crypto/crc32c_generic.c
@@ -172,4 +172,3 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CRC32c (Castagnoli) calculations wrapper for lib/crc32c");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO("crc32c");
 MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO("crc32c-generic");
-MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: crc32c");
diff --git a/lib/libcrc32c.c b/lib/libcrc32c.c
index 6a08ce7..acf9da4 100644
--- a/lib/libcrc32c.c
+++ b/lib/libcrc32c.c
@@ -74,3 +74,4 @@ module_exit(libcrc32c_mod_fini);
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Clay Haapala <chaapala@...co.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CRC32c (Castagnoli) calculations");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: crc32c");
-- 
1.9.1