Re: [PATCH v6 05/10] crc32-misc-cleanup.diff

Andrew Morton
2011-09-06T19:39:13Z

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 00:50:13 +1000
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:40:10 +0200 Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se> wrote:
> >
> > It seems like an early version of the slice-by-8 crc32 algo. is in linux-next,
> > committed by you.
> > That version is crap, whats the plan?
>
> I assume that it is one of the patches in Andrew's tree. When things get
> back closer to normality with kernel.org, I assume that Andrew will
> replace it with a newer version (if he has been sent one).

Yup. lib-crc-add-slice-by-8-algorithm-to-crc32c.patch is dead meat. I
sometimes keep things like that around to get them a bit of testing
while reminding myself that there's an open issue to track.