linux-kernel - [PATCH 10/14] crc32: Add note about this patchset to crc32.c

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Message-ID: <20120107055149.31315.79994.stgit@elm3c44.beaverton.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:51:49 -0800
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
Cc:	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: [PATCH 10/14] crc32: Add note about this patchset to crc32.c

Some final changes
	- added a comment at the top of crc32.c

From: Bob Pearson <rpearson@...temfabricworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Pearson <rpearson@...temfabricworks.com>
[djwong@...ibm.com: Minor changelog tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@...ibm.com>
---
 lib/crc32.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)


diff --git a/lib/crc32.c b/lib/crc32.c
index 2c8e8c0..d56516d 100644
--- a/lib/crc32.c
+++ b/lib/crc32.c
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 /*
+ * Aug 8, 2011 Bob Pearson with help from Joakim Tjernlund and George Spelvin
+ * cleaned up code to current version of sparse and added the slicing-by-8
+ * algorithm to the closely similar existing slicing-by-4 algorithm.
+ *
  * Oct 15, 2000 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>
  * Nicer crc32 functions/docs submitted by linux@...izon.com.  Thanks!
  * Code was from the public domain, copyright abandoned.  Code was

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