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Subject: Re: Switch DVB to generic crc32. 
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holger@convergence.de said:
>  the crc32 table was defined because the same driver works for 2.4
> kernels, there we need our own crc32 implementation.

JFFS2 in 2.4 has the same problem. The fix is to backport the 2.5 crc32 
code so that 2.4 isn't gratuitously different. That patch has been sent to 
Alan already, I believe it's going to be sent to Marcelo for 2.4.21-pre1.

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dwmw2


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