Re: [PATCH net-next] ixgbe: fix XFRM_ALGO dependency

[Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>]

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On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 18:04 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 5:53 PM Jeff Kirsher
> <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 09:35 -0700, Shannon Nelson wrote:
> > > On 10/16/2018 3:03 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > A separate Kconfig symbol now controls whether we include the
> > > > ipsec
> > > > offload code. To keep the old behavior, this is left as
> > > > 'default
> > > > y'. The
> > > > dependency in XFRM_OFFLOAD still causes a circular dependency
> > > > but
> > > > is
> > > > not actually needed because this symbol is not user visible, so
> > > > removing
> > > > that dependency on top makes it all work.
> > > > 
> > > > Fixes: eda0333ac293 ("ixgbe: add VF IPsec management")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > 
> > I agree with Shannon's suggested changes.  Arnd, are you working on
> > v2?
> > Or would you like me to take care of it?
> 
> I was planning to respin it, but didn't get around to it yet, and
> will
> be travelling for the next week, so I'd welcome if you can take over
> from here. Shannon's comments all make sense to me as well.

Ok, I will run with it and make a v2 for you.

> 
> > > > +config IXGBE_IPSEC
> > > > +   bool "IPSec XFRM cryptography-offload accelaration"
> > > > +   default n
> > > 
> > > remove this "default n" line?
> 
> I meant for this to say "default y", as I said in the changelog,
> but feel free to pick whichever default makes sense to you
> make make the description match ;-)


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