linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 01/12] crypto: Remove u128 usage

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Message-ID: <7C23FA3C-A967-4BAE-970B-5E6FAF4DE037@zytor.com>
Date:   Mon, 19 Dec 2022 20:11:37 -0800
From:   "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 01/12] crypto: Remove u128 usage

On December 19, 2022 7:50:47 PM PST, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 06:03:04PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>>
>> Is there a patch at the end of the series that adds it back in to use u128?
>
>Could we do some ifdef trickery to reduce the amount of code churn
>please? Changing everything away from u128 and then back to it seems
>silly.
>
>Thanks,

Seems like "merging common code snippets" is something we at least used to do with single patches...