Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 05:04:09PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: >> I wonder why crc32c isn't used directly while crc32 is used directly >> since they vary by only the polynomial. > > It's because iSCSI uses it with scatterlists. The crypto layer > provides a nice interface for that while using it directly would > require the user to do the scatterlist walk. > >> Using crc32c directly might enable us to kill net/sctp/crc32c.c and >> merge lib/crc32.c and lib/libcrc32c? > > I'm pretty sure we can kill net/sctp/crc32c.c today by converting > it over to use the crypto interface. Funny, I looked for crc32c in the lib just the other week and didn't spot it. Need to look harder :) -vlad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
