4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jean Delvare <jdelv...@suse.de>
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.c...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelv...@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
crypto/crc32c_generic.c | 1 -
lib/libcrc32c.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/crypto/crc32c_generic.c
+++ b/crypto/crc32c_generic.c
@@ -172,4 +172,3 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CRC32c (Castagnoli)
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO("crc32c");
MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO("crc32c-generic");
-MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: crc32c");
--- a/lib/libcrc32c.c
+++ b/lib/libcrc32c.c
@@ -74,3 +74,4 @@ module_exit(libcrc32c_mod_fini);
MODULE_AUTHOR("Clay Haapala <chaap...@cisco.com>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CRC32c (Castagnoli) calculations");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: crc32c");
