On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 08:55:00AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> Thanks!  Thats definately an oversight.  Likely I included it because I was
> implementing it as part of the FIPS effort.  The CPRNG definately works fine,
> even if fips is disabled.  Although I think the relationship should be 
> reversed,
> not just removed, as FIPS support requires the use of the CPRNG.  Something 
> like
> this:
> 
>  
> commit d9645d88d97e81c6528f311ee126df79a0d27501
> Author: Neil Horman <nhor...@tuxdriver.com>
> Date:   Fri Jun 19 08:52:37 2009 -0400
> 
>     Fix CPRNG/FIPS dependency
>     
>     The ANSI CPRNG has no dependence on FIPS support.  FIPS support however,
>     requires the use of the CPRNG.  Adjust that depedency relationship in 
> Kconfig
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhor...@tuxdriver.com>

Hmm, I just noticed that all my crypto modules have been marked
as built-in again because of this patch.

As you're selecting a tristate from a bool, it causes CPRNG
and everything under it to be built-in.

I'm going to revert this patch.

Cheers,
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