[PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: remove unnecessary selection of CRC32
Will Deacon
will at kernel.org
Tue Apr 29 13:27:46 PDT 2025
On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:40:18 -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> The selection of CRC32 by ARM64 was added by commit 7481cddf29ed
> ("arm64/lib: add accelerated crc32 routines") as a workaround for the
> fact that, at the time, the CRC32 library functions used weak symbols to
> allow architecture-specific overrides. That only worked when CRC32 was
> built-in, and thus ARM64 was made to just force CRC32 to built-in.
>
> Now that the CRC32 library no longer uses weak symbols, that no longer
> applies. And the selection does not fulfill a user dependency either;
> those all have their own selections from other options. Therefore, the
> selection of CRC32 by ARM64 is no longer necessary. Remove it.
>
> [...]
Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!
[1/1] arm64: Kconfig: remove unnecessary selection of CRC32
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/e2eaeba0522d
Cheers,
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