3.13.11-ckt34 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let 
me know.

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From: Jean Delvare <[email protected]>

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 <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
[ kamal: backport to 3.13-stable: only needs the libcrc32.c addition ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]>
---
 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 <[email protected]>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CRC32c (Castagnoli) calculations");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: crc32c");
-- 
1.9.1

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