crc32: move long comment about crc32 fundamentals to Documentation/

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.

[[email protected]: minor changelog tweaks]
[[email protected]: fix typo, per George]
Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Bob Pearson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Bob Pearson 2012-03-23 15:02:22 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ cpuidle/
- info on CPU_IDLE, CPU idle state management subsystem.
cputopology.txt
- documentation on how CPU topology info is exported via sysfs.
crc32.txt
- brief tutorial on CRC computation
cris/
- directory with info about Linux on CRIS architecture.
crypto/