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"