Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86/hash: swap parameters of crc32_u32()

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Feb 25 2014 - 15:38:26 EST


On 02/25/2014 12:34 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 02/25/2014 09:26 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 02/21/2014 02:33 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> ... to match its two callers (i.e. the alternative would have been to
>>> swap the arguments at the call sites).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Francesco Fusco <ffusco@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> arch/x86/lib/hash.c | 2 +-
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> Jan, do you want to do an updated version of this patch? Daniel, I
>> presume you are going to push this patch?
>
> Good point. I'm fine if this is going to be picked up
> by x86 maintainers. Feel free to add my ...
>
> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ... if you want to do an updated version that also
> includes our recent findings/discussion, Jan.
>

Well, I don't want to change the names of the arguments in the inline
function unless we also change the their functions and actually reverse
the order of the operands as used.

-hpa


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