3.13.11-ckt34 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ kamal: backport to 3.13-stable: only needs the libcrc32.c addition ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/libcrc32c.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/lib/libcrc32c.c b/lib/libcrc32c.c
index 244f548..2484a6c 100644
--- a/lib/libcrc32c.c
+++ b/lib/libcrc32c.c
@@ -79,3 +79,4 @@ module_exit(libcrc32c_mod_fini);
MODULE_AUTHOR("Clay Haapala <chaapala@xxxxxxxxx>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CRC32c (Castagnoli) calculations");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: crc32c");
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1.9.1
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