linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v4] crc32c: Implement CRC32c with slicing-by-8 algorithm

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Date:	Mon, 3 Oct 2011 21:35:13 +0100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@...nsmode.se>
Cc:	djwong@...ibm.com, Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-crypto <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bob Pearson <rpearson@...temfabricworks.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] crc32c: Implement CRC32c with slicing-by-8 algorithm

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 10:27:03PM +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>
> > > Start from Bobs latest patches and add crc32c to lib/crc32.c
> >
> > If I did that, how should I handle patching in the hardware accelerated version
> > on Intel systems?  That switcheroo ability seems to have been Herbert Xu's
> > motivation for moving crc32c into crypto/ in the first place:
> 
> I don't know, I haven't looked at that problem. I suspect it moved because that
> was the easiest solution. Having an identical impl. of crc32(only the table values differ)
> in crypto compared to the one in lib is not the way forward though.

You can always get crypto/crc32c.c to use call helpers from
lib/crc32.c.

Cheers,
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