linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/16] drivers/fsi: Add crc4 helpers

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Message-ID: <20161207090219.GA14742@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 7 Dec 2016 10:02:19 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Chris Bostic <christopher.lee.bostic@...il.com>
Cc:     robh+dt@...nel.org, mark.rutland@....com, linux@...linux.org.uk,
        sre@...nel.org, mturquette@...libre.com, geert+renesas@...der.be,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>, joel@....id.au,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...id.au,
        alistair@...ple.id.au, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
        Chris Bostic <cbostic@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/16] drivers/fsi: Add crc4 helpers

On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 08:09:31PM -0600, Chris Bostic wrote:
> From: Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>
> 
> Add some helpers for the crc checks for the slave configuration table.
> This works 4-bits-at-a-time, using a simple table approach.
> 
> We will need this in the FSI core code, as well as any master
> implementations that need to calculate CRCs in software.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Bostic <cbostic@...ibm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/fsi/fsi-core.c   | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/fsi/fsi-master.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 42 insertions(+)

Why not just create lib/crc4.c with these functions, like the other crc
functions in the kernel?  Don't bury these in some random driver
subsystem please.

thanks,

greg k-h