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crc32: move long comment about crc32 fundamentals to Documentation/
authorBob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com>
Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:02:22 +0000 (15:02 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:58:37 +0000 (16:58 -0700)
commit6855f2c43bf188314139cd27048710b195fbcc9c
treeea4f9453fd810c82c106df1e5b5932894ddcadd5
parent51dbfea4a216e113952e2265de3de1eea67be981
crc32: move long comment about crc32 fundamentals to Documentation/

Move a long comment from lib/crc32.c to Documentation/crc32.txt where it
will more likely get read.

Edited the resulting document to add an explanation of the slicing-by-n
algorithm.

[djwong@us.ibm.com: minor changelog tweaks]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per George]
Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
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>
Documentation/00-INDEX
Documentation/crc32.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/crc32.c