Re: Generic crc32c support in kernel?

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:44:36PM -0700, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> Yeah, a lib would be the best place for this - as well as ext\dfs, iscsi
> and sctp use crc32c, and there will probably be more users. Would also be
> good to get this shared with userland via src/common

There are space/time trade offs and we might need a special small version
for bootloaders. Innocent changes in this area made booting of compressed
kernels take multiple minutes (instead of a few seconds) on some machines
recently.

Martin