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diff --git a/fs/crypto/Kconfig b/fs/crypto/Kconfig
index a5f5c30368a2..2d0c8922f635 100644
--- a/fs/crypto/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/crypto/Kconfig
@@ -14,16 +14,30 @@ config FS_ENCRYPTION
F2FS and UBIFS make use of this feature.
# Filesystems supporting encryption must select this if FS_ENCRYPTION. This
-# allows the algorithms to be built as modules when all the filesystems are.
+# allows the algorithms to be built as modules when all the filesystems are,
+# whereas selecting them from FS_ENCRYPTION would force them to be built-in.
+#
+# Note: this option only pulls in the algorithms that filesystem encryption
+# needs "by default". If userspace will use "non-default" encryption modes such
+# as Adiantum encryption, then those other modes need to be explicitly enabled
+# in the crypto API; see Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst for details.
+#
+# Also note that this option only pulls in the generic implementations of the
+# algorithms, not any per-architecture optimized implementations. It is
+# strongly recommended to enable optimized implementations too. It is safe to
+# disable these generic implementations if corresponding optimized
+# implementations will always be available too; for this reason, these are soft
+# dependencies ('imply' rather than 'select'). Only disable these generic
+# implementations if you're sure they will never be needed, though.
config FS_ENCRYPTION_ALGS
tristate
- select CRYPTO_AES
- select CRYPTO_CBC
- select CRYPTO_CTS
- select CRYPTO_ECB
- select CRYPTO_HMAC
- select CRYPTO_SHA512
- select CRYPTO_XTS
+ imply CRYPTO_AES
+ imply CRYPTO_CBC
+ imply CRYPTO_CTS
+ imply CRYPTO_ECB
+ imply CRYPTO_HMAC
+ imply CRYPTO_SHA512
+ imply CRYPTO_XTS
config FS_ENCRYPTION_INLINE_CRYPT
bool "Enable fscrypt to use inline crypto"