Re: [PATCH] crypto: Make CRYPTO_CBC select CRYPTO_ECHAINIV

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On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 09:16:34PM +0100, Thomas Egerer wrote:
> On 01/08/2016 10:48 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > Please patch net/ipvX/Kconfig instead as ECHAINIV is only used
> > by IPsec.
> This does not seem right to me. By depending on CRYPTO_CBC in a particular
> Kconfig, I would expect the 'default algorithm for CBC' to be transitively
> selected with it. It's what CRYPTO_CTR does. There are a couple of places
> that use select CRYPTO_CBC but not CRYPTO_ECHAINIV  (ext4, wusbcore, md
> to mention a few). Wouldn't these end up unusable too, if CBC-mode doesn't
> activate echainiv?

All of those other users should work without echainiv so why would
they need to select it?

Cheers,
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