tree 1f331fa108ea29ccf06a7b5816da4dbcaa12bf2d
parent ce4320ddda4c2520fe77194d3c801ad4e8a8aa11
author Bob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com> 1332540143 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1332547117 -0700

crc32: make CRC_*_BITS definition correspond to actual bit counts

crc32.c provides a choice of one of several algorithms for computing the
LSB and LSB versions of the CRC32 checksum based on the parameters
CRC_LE_BITS and CRC_BE_BITS.

In the original version the values 1, 2, 4 and 8 respectively selected
versions of the alrogithm that computed the crc 1, 2, 4 and 32 bits as a
time.

This patch series adds a new version that computes the CRC 64 bits at a
time.  To make things easier to understand the parameter has been
reinterpreted to actually stand for the number of bits processed in each
step of the algorithm so that the old value 8 has been replaced with the
value 32.

This also allows us to add in a widely used crc algorithm that computes
the crc 8 bits at a time called the Sarwate algorithm.

[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>