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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Added missing dependencies on CRYPTO_HMAC
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 01:40:28PM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 2003, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 12:19:09PM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> > >
> > > See crypto/Kconfig, CRYPTO_HMAC is being defaulted to Y if these protocols
> > > are selected.
> >
> > Yes, but the user can then set them to no. This does happen as the
> > Crypto menu is listed after Networking so someone going through it
> > in that order can select INET_AH and then go on to disable Crypto.
>
> Yes, we allow users to override the defaults if they wish, at their own
> peril.
>...

The real problems are more subtle:
Consider someone uses neither CRYPTO_HMAC nor INET_AH and later changes
his .config using menuconfig - the "default" does _nothing_ since
CRYPTO_HMAC already has a value.

Thinking more about this issue it seems the "enable" feature in the
latest Kconfig patch will be the correct solution.


> James Morris

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Adrian

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