linux-kernel - Re: Left-over select to PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO

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Date:	Fri, 04 Mar 2016 15:23:49 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Andreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@....de>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Left-over select to PUBLIC_KEY_ALGO_RSA

Andreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@....de> wrote:

> As the corresponding option is gone, the select statement can safely be
> removed. Should I prepare a simple patch for that?

Please.

> I detected this by using scripts/checkkconfigsymbols on today's and
> yesterday's linux-next trees (i.e., "./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py -d
> next-20160303..next-20160304").

Interesting - I didn't realise that exists.  This sort of consistency check
should be run every time the Kconfig files are parsed.

Thanks,
David