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2012-03-23crc32: move long comment about crc32 fundamentals to Documentation/Bob Pearson1-0/+182
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 <linux@horizon.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>