Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] lib/crc7: Shift crc7() output left 1 bit

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 05/11/2014 03:02 AM, George Spelvin wrote:
> From 770aa22e6c9c92027e3e21797192ccabb3e7c70e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: George Spelvin <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 10:32:57 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] lib/crc7: Shift crc7() output left 1 bit
> 
> This eliminates a 1-bit left shift in every single caller,
> and makes the inner loop of the CRC computation more efficient.
> 
> Renamed crc7 to crc7_be (big-endian) since the interface changed.
> 
> Also purged #include <linux/crc7.h> from files that don't use it at all.
> 
> Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>

If the whole point of this is to use it for MMC/SD cards, why not just
also subsume the OR 1 and call it crc7_mmc() or something like that.

(Which I'm all for doing... I don't know of any other crc7 users.)

	-hpa


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