linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: remove unnecessary selection of CRC32

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Message-Id: <174594004029.473481.4442846222073127279.b4-ty@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:27:46 +0100
From: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc: kernel-team@...roid.com,
	Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: remove unnecessary selection of CRC32

On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:40:18 -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> The selection of CRC32 by ARM64 was added by commit 7481cddf29ed
> ("arm64/lib: add accelerated crc32 routines") as a workaround for the
> fact that, at the time, the CRC32 library functions used weak symbols to
> allow architecture-specific overrides.  That only worked when CRC32 was
> built-in, and thus ARM64 was made to just force CRC32 to built-in.
> 
> Now that the CRC32 library no longer uses weak symbols, that no longer
> applies.  And the selection does not fulfill a user dependency either;
> those all have their own selections from other options.  Therefore, the
> selection of CRC32 by ARM64 is no longer necessary.  Remove it.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!

[1/1] arm64: Kconfig: remove unnecessary selection of CRC32
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/e2eaeba0522d

Cheers,
-- 
Will

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