linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] lib/crc32: remove other generic implementations

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Message-ID: <20250125111453.26e33854@pumpkin>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 11:14:53 +0000
From: David Laight <david.laight.linux@...il.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds
 <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, Ard
 Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>, "Darrick J . Wong"
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 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Vinicius Peixoto <vpeixoto@...amp.dev>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] lib/crc32: remove other generic implementations

On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:29:04 -0800
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org> wrote:

> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> 
> Now that we've standardized on the byte-by-byte implementation of CRC32
> as the only generic implementation (see previous commit for the
> rationale), remove the code for the other implementations.

Some of that deleted code is disgusting - well disposed of.

	David