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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 08:25:05 +0800 From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@...nsmode.se>, Bob Pearson <rpearson@...temfabricworks.com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>, linux-crypto <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/14] crc32: Select an algorithm via kconfig On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:15:17PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > Allow the kernel builder to choose a crc32* algorithm for the kernel. > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@...ibm.com> I don't like this at all. How do you expect distros or indeed anyone to make this choice? For generic C implementations like this we should only have one, and not many. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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