On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 9:11 PM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Your touch might be helpful here. CRYPTO_LIB_CHACHA20POLY1305 is a > > tristate and depends on as well as selects other things that are > > tristates. > > > > Meanwhile BIG_KEYS is a bool, which needs to select > > CRYPTO_LIB_CHACHA20POLY1305. However, it gets antsy if the the symbol > > its selecting has =m items in its hierarchy. > > > > Any suggestions? The ideal thing to happen would be that the select of > > CRYPTO_LIB_CHACHA20POLY1305 in BIG_KEYS causes all of the descendants > > to become =y too. > > I think that select is broken in its behaviour - it doesn't propagate the > selection enforcement up the tree. You could try changing it to a depends on > or you could put in a select for every dependency. I agree. 'depends on' will be cleaner. > I'm not sure there are any > other options - unless we turn big_key into a module and institute autoloading > of keytypes on demand. > > David > -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
