On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 03:26:43PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > That seems to indicate that we've had already PostgreSQL licensed code on
> > Linux since Kent's addition of bcache to Linux in 2013. The portion of code
> > is rather small though, to me it seems to cover only crc_table[],
> > bch_crc64_update(), and bch_crc64().
>
> > As silly as it may be we should split out the PostgreSQL licensed code from
> > drivers/md/bcache/util.c into its own file and while at it clarify the
> > license.
While we're at it maybe we should move the crc-64 code to lib and/or
crypto, alongside our support for crc-8, crc-16, and crc-32
algorithms? That way if there are other potential users for crc-64,
they will be less likely to re-invent the wheel....
- Ted
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