linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: crc32 - remove "generic" from file and module names

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Message-Id: <35c777f9-9767-48cf-acdb-9b47789f6c8b@app.fastmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:55:01 +0200
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...nel.org>
To: "Eric Biggers" <ebiggers@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, "Ard Biesheuvel" <ardb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: crc32 - remove "generic" from file and module names

On Mon, Apr 28, 2025, at 18:24, Eric Biggers wrote:
>
> We could instead rename the library module to libcrc32.ko.  However,
> while lib/crypto/ uses that convention, the rest of lib/ doesn't.  Since
> the library API is the primary API for CRC-32, I'd like to keep the
> unsuffixed name for it and make the Crypto API modules use a suffix.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>