Re: [PATCH] sparc64: Add CRC32C driver making use of the new crc32c opcode.

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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:36:54 +0800

> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 08:52:31PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Looks good to me.

Thanks for reviewing.

>> This was largely straightforward, except for two things.
>> 
>> 1) The tests assume that the 32-bit crc is stored in the context in
>>    cpu endian.  The sparc64 crc32c opcode wants to work with a little
>>    endian mode, but sparc64 is big-endian.
> 
> We can still change this as nothing outside the kernel relies
> on the format of the context.  For the time being all that's
> required is that it be identical between software and hardware
> implementations.

Ok, let's just leave it alone for now :-)
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