Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] lib/crc: improve how arch-optimized code is integrated

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>]

On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 05:47:02PM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 01:04:42PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > Having arch-specific code outside arch/ was somewhat controversial when
> > Zinc proposed it back in 2018.  But I don't think the concerns are
> > warranted.  It's better from a technical perspective, as it enables the
> > improvements mentioned above.  This model is already successfully used
> > in other places in the kernel such as lib/raid6/.  The community of each
> > architecture still remains free to work on the code, even if it's not in
> > arch/.  At the time there was also a desire to put the library code in
> > the same files as the old-school crypto API, but that was a mistake; now
> > that the library is separate, that's no longer a constraint either.
> 
> I can't express how happy I am to see this revived. It's clearly the
> right way forward and makes it a lot simpler for us to dispatch to
> various arch implementations and also is organizationally simpler.
> 
> Jason

Thanks!  Can I turn that into an Acked-by?

- Eric