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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-04-08 14:28:37 -0700
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-04-08 14:28:37 -0700
commit099f53cb50e45ef617a9f1d63ceec799e489418b (patch)
treefd57f259f58bcf615fe2b17734ed0cbec612782d /Documentation/crypto
parentfd74ea65883c7e6903e9b652795f72b723a2be69 (diff)
async_tx: rename zero_sum to val
'zero_sum' does not properly describe the operation of generating parity and checking that it validates against an existing buffer. Change the name of the operation to 'val' (for 'validate'). This is in anticipation of the p+q case where it is a requirement to identify the target parity buffers separately from the source buffers, because the target parity buffers will not have corresponding pq coefficients. Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt b/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt
@@ -61,13 +61,13 @@ async_<operation>(<op specific parameters>,
void *callback_parameter);
3.2 Supported operations:
-memcpy - memory copy between a source and a destination buffer
-memset - fill a destination buffer with a byte value
-xor - xor a series of source buffers and write the result to a
- destination buffer
-xor_zero_sum - xor a series of source buffers and set a flag if the
- result is zero. The implementation attempts to prevent
- writes to memory
+memcpy - memory copy between a source and a destination buffer
+memset - fill a destination buffer with a byte value
+xor - xor a series of source buffers and write the result to a
+ destination buffer
+xor_val - xor a series of source buffers and set a flag if the
+ result is zero. The implementation attempts to prevent
+ writes to memory
3.3 Descriptor management:
The return value is non-NULL and points to a 'descriptor' when the operation