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authorDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>2012-03-28 14:42:56 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-28 17:14:37 -0700
commit82edb4baa762c98008fcea6393e85bffedab2b3c (patch)
tree70adf1cd03a3f4ed635ae23db6e95b0f0525a13a
parentf0f57b2b1488251970c25deea0ea150a8d0911ed (diff)
crc32: add help text for the algorithm select option
Add help text to the crc32 algorithm selection option in Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Reported-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
index a0e5900a9d85..4a8aba2e5cc0 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig
+++ b/lib/Kconfig
@@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ choice
prompt "CRC32 implementation"
depends on CRC32
default CRC32_SLICEBY8
+ help
+ This option allows a kernel builder to override the default choice
+ of CRC32 algorithm. Choose the default ("slice by 8") unless you
+ know that you need one of the others.
config CRC32_SLICEBY8
bool "Slice by 8 bytes"