linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Simplify the shash wrappers for the CRC32 library

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Message-ID: <20250617033922.GE8289@sol>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 20:39:22 -0700
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
	linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
	David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Simplify the shash wrappers for the CRC32 library

On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 11:37:51AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> This series simplifies how the CRC32 library functions are exposed
> through the crypto_shash API.  We'll now have just one shash algorithm
> each for "crc32" and "crc32c", and their driver names will just always
> be "crc32-lib" and "crc32c-lib" respectively.  This seems to be all
> that's actually needed.
> 
> As mentioned in patch 2, this does change the content of
> /sys/fs/btrfs/$uuid/checksum again, but that should be fine.
> 
> This is based on v6.16-rc1, and I'm planning to take these patches
> through the crc-next tree.  These supersede
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250601224441.778374-2-ebiggers@kernel.org/
> and
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250601224441.778374-3-ebiggers@kernel.org/,
> and they fix the warning in the full crypto self-tests reported at
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/aExLZaoBCg55rZWJ@li-008a6a4c-3549-11b2-a85c-c5cc2836eea2.ibm.com/
> 
> Eric Biggers (2):
>   btrfs: stop parsing crc32c driver name
>   crypto/crc32[c]: register only "-lib" drivers

FYI, applied to
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git/log/?h=crc-next
as per the plan above.  An ack from the btrfs folks on both patches would be
appreciated, though.

- Eric