From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32c algorithm by new crypto API. Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:27:57 +0100 Message-ID: <1217845677.3454.582.camel@pmac.infradead.org> References: <1217842507.20845.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1217844725.3454.580.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080804102557.GA21265@Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Austin Zhang , herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org To: Sebastian Siewior Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:60741 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752748AbYHDK2L (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 06:28:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080804102557.GA21265@Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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