[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] kernel: expose configuration for padata

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Baptiste Jonglez
<baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org> wrote:
> Looks good to me, I didn't see an increase in kernel size when selecting
> this option on ar71xx (I looked at the size of
> "build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl-1.1.15/linux-ar71xx_generic/linux-4.4.30/vmlinuz")

Right. What happens on this platform is since there's no SMP, that
option gets automatically deactivated, so the net effect is zero. On
SMP systems, it forces CONFIG_PADATA to be selected, which is the
option we actually want.

>
> However, I had to do a "make clean", because selecting
> KERNEL_CRYPTO_PCRYPT does not cause all kmod packages to be rebuilt for
> the new kernel config:

This is what I've seen happen too when changing any kernel related
options at all.