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authorBob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com>2012-03-23 15:02:24 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-23 16:58:38 -0700
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crc32: add note about this patchset to crc32.c
Add a comment at the top of crc32.c [djwong@us.ibm.com: Minor changelog tweaks] Signed-off-by: Bob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/lib/crc32.c b/lib/crc32.c
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/*
+ * Aug 8, 2011 Bob Pearson with help from Joakim Tjernlund and George Spelvin
+ * cleaned up code to current version of sparse and added the slicing-by-8
+ * algorithm to the closely similar existing slicing-by-4 algorithm.
+ *
* Oct 15, 2000 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
* Nicer crc32 functions/docs submitted by linux@horizon.com. Thanks!
* Code was from the public domain, copyright abandoned. Code was