From fbedceb10066430b925cf43fbf926e8abb9e2359 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Pearson Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:02:22 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Bob Pearson Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/00-INDEX | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/00-INDEX') 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/ -- cgit v1.2.3