From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] crc32c: Implement a self-test for CRC32c
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 18:24:22 -0400
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On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 03:18:54PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> I suspect it would be pretty easy to adapt the Makefile to generate the
> relevant .c and .h files; in particular it could be useful to use the crypto
> framework for crc32 on the off chance anyone wants to provide hwaccel for that
> too.

crc32 or crc32c?  Note that there already is a hardware optimized crc32c
for recent Intel CPUs in arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-intel.c.