Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On Monday 18 April 2005 12:01, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
>
>>Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>>
>>>On Sunday 17 April 2005 22:20, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>The attached patch contains Gladman's in-kernel code for key schedule
>>>>and table generation modified to fit to my assembler implementation,
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>>>
>>>
>>>Patch contains a mix of several coding styles:
>>>
>>>+/*
>>>+ * #define byte(x, nr) ((unsigned char)((x) >> (nr*8)))
>>>+ */
>>>+inline static u8
>>>+byte(const u32 x, const unsigned n)
>>>+{
>>>+ return x >> (n << 3);
>>>+}
>>>
>>>what does const do here?
>>
>>Taken 'as is' from current kernel sources, i,e, crypto/aes.c
>
>
> "It's a cut-n-paste" is not a good argument here. You
> are adding a _new file_ with your patch, it's okay to clean
> it up while doing this. IOW: do not dup the mess.
>
> OTOH, if _exactly the same file_ exist in i384 arch, then
> you should not duplicate it at all. Find a way to use one file
> for both arches.
>
> Note that this is only my view, I can be wrong.
> --
> vda
>
I'll wait for Herbert Xu's review and his opinion on this.
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