From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263643AbTEWGbu (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2003 02:31:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263646AbTEWGbu (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2003 02:31:50 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:3727 "EHLO imladris.demon.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263643AbTEWGbt (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2003 02:31:49 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Shared crc32 for 2.4. From: David Woodhouse To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1053193432.9218.13.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1053637872.21582.702.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5.dwmw2) Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 07:44:52 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: marcelo@conectiva.com.br, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 21:23, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Lets wait for 2.4.22pre. OK. It currently looks like this... ChangeSet@1.1212, 2003-05-22 22:07:44+01:00, dwmw2@dwmw2.baythorne.internal Fix CONFIG_CRC32=y when nothing in-kernel uses CRC32 functions by exporting the symbol from kernel/ksyms.c instead of lib/crc32.c, hence forcing lib/crc32.o to get pulled in during the final link. ChangeSet@1.1211, 2003-05-19 14:31:55+01:00, dwmw2@dwmw2.baythorne.internal Add config help for CONFIG_CRC32 (Duncan Sands ) ChangeSet@1.1210, 2003-05-17 18:34:20+01:00, dwmw2@dwmw2.baythorne.internal Switch to shared optimised CRC32 functions. -- dwmw2