Re: [NET] Allow MD5 to be a module

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:40:52 +1000
Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I found that recent 2.6 kernels no longer allowed me to build MD5 as
> a module even though everything that used it were modules (including
> ipv6 and sctp).  It turns out that there were boolean options
> selecting MD5 in the Kconfig files.  Due to limitations in the current
> kconfig implementation, this forces MD5 to be a boolean as well.
> 
> The usual workaround in these cases is to move the selection up
> to the closest tristate.  This is what the following patch does.

Applied, thanks Herbert.