Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32c algorithm by new crypto API. | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:45:26 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 06:35 -0400, Austin Zhang wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 11:12 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > You could perhaps just use 'unsigned long' here, to avoid the ifdef. > Thanks. > > And it would be nice if we could make libcrc32c use this too, rather > > than just the 'crypto' users. > From previous discussing, herbert would like to transfer the libcrc32c > interface by new crypto because there were few user using the current > libcrc32c interface.
Are we deprecating libcrc32c, then? Or just turning it into a wrapper around the crypto code?
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...
-- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
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