Subject: Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32c
	algorithm by new crypto API.
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Sebastian Siewior <linux-crypto@ml.breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Austin Zhang <austin_zhang@linux.intel.com>, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
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Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:27:57 +0100
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On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 12:25 +0200, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
> * David Woodhouse | 2008-08-04 11:12:05 [+0100]:
> >And it would be nice if we could make libcrc32c use this too, rather
> >than just the 'crypto' users.
> 
> I'm not sure if I remeber correctly but I thing Herbert was planning to
> convert all users over to the crypto API to avoid compile time
> dependency.

That's one way of doing it, although it seems a little bit like overkill
in this particular case.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com                              Intel Corporation


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