Re: [PATCH] crypto: caam - avoid option aliasing with the CONFIG_CAAM_QI build option

[Horia Geanta]

On 7/1/2025 2:20 PM, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> From: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In the Makefile, the new build option CONFIG_CAAM_QI is defined conditioned
> on the existence of the CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_FSL_CAAM_CRYPTO_API_QI, which is
> properly defined in the Kconfig file. So, CONFIG_CAAM_QI is just a local
> alias for CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_FSL_CAAM_CRYPTO_API_QI.
> 
> There is little benefit in the source code of having this slightly shorter
> alias for this configuration, but it complicates further maintenance, as
> searching for the impact of CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_FSL_CAAM_CRYPTO_API_QI
> requires to grep once, and then identify the option introduced and continue
> searching for that. Further, tools, such as cross referencers, and scripts
> to check Kconfig definitions and their use simply do not handle this
> situation. Given that this is the only incidence of such a config alias in
> the whole kernel tree, just prefer to avoid this pattern of aliasing here.
> 
> Use CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_FSL_CAAM_CRYPTO_API_QI throughout the Freescale
> CAAM-Multicore platform driver backend source code.
> 
> No functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Horia