Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32c algorithm by new crypto API.

Herbert Xu
2008-08-04T14:04:56Z

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:45:26AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> Are we deprecating libcrc32c, then? Or just turning it into a wrapper
> around the crypto code?

It will be removed.

> Either way, does it really make sense to force all crc32 users to pull
> in the whole crypto framework? Some may get fractious about that...

There only three crc32c users in the kernel tree and the crypto
interface will serve the perfectly.

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