netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: fs-enet: Use generic CRC32 implementation

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Date:   Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:42:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     krzk@...nel.org
Cc:     pantelis.antoniou@...il.com, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        ebiggers3@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: fs-enet: Use generic CRC32
 implementation

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 18:20:20 +0200

> Use generic kernel CRC32 implementation because it:
> 1. Should be faster (uses lookup tables),
> 2. Removes duplicated CRC generation code,
> 3. Uses well-proven algorithm instead of coding it one more time.
> 
> Suggested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>

Applied.