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Date:	Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:45:26 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Austin Zhang <austin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32c
	algorithm by new crypto API.

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 06:35 -0400, Austin Zhang wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 11:12 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > You could perhaps just use 'unsigned long' here, to avoid the ifdef.
> Thanks. 
> > And it would be nice if we could make libcrc32c use this too, rather
> > than just the 'crypto' users.
> From previous discussing, herbert would like to transfer the libcrc32c 
> interface by new crypto because there were few user using the current 
> libcrc32c interface. 

Are we deprecating libcrc32c, then? Or just turning it into a wrapper
around the crypto code?

Either way, does it really make sense to force all crc32 users to pull
in the whole crypto framework? Some may get fractious about that...

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation



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