Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934899AbYBABRL (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:17:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760032AbYBABQz (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:16:55 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57898 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755565AbYBABQy (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:16:54 -0500 Message-ID: <47A272D8.7030106@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:16:08 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Newall CC: Ian Campbell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: add a crc32 checksum to the kernel image. References: <1201815920-24669-1-git-send-email-ijc@hellion.org.uk> <1201815920-24669-2-git-send-email-ijc@hellion.org.uk> <1201815920-24669-3-git-send-email-ijc@hellion.org.uk> <47A26B2F.8080001@davidnewall.com> In-Reply-To: <47A26B2F.8080001@davidnewall.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 438 Lines: 12 David Newall wrote: > Isn't a crc32 calculation already defined? Yes; in lib/crc32.c. One is > surely enough. As long as it can be included in user-space code we should use that one. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/