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author | Bob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com> | 2012-03-23 23:02:22 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-03-24 00:58:37 +0100 |
commit | fbedceb10066430b925cf43fbf926e8abb9e2359 (patch) | |
tree | ea4f9453fd810c82c106df1e5b5932894ddcadd5 /Documentation/00-INDEX | |
parent | crc32: remove two instances of trailing whitespaces (diff) | |
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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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX index a1a643272883..2214f123a976 100644 --- a/Documentation/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX @@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ cpuidle/ - info on CPU_IDLE, CPU idle state management subsystem. cputopology.txt - documentation on how CPU topology info is exported via sysfs. +crc32.txt + - brief tutorial on CRC computation cris/ - directory with info about Linux on CRIS architecture. crypto/ |