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Neil Brown authored
md currently uses csum_partial to calculate checksums for superblocks. However this function is not consistent across all architectures. Some (i386) to a 32bit csum. Some (alpha) do a 16 bit csum. This makes it hard for userspace to keep up. So we provide a generic routine (that does exactly what the i386 csum_partial does) and: - When setting the csum, use csum_partial so that old kernels will still recognise the superblock - When checking the csum, allow either csum_partial or the new generic code to provide the right csum. This allows user-space to just use the common code and always work. Also modify the csum for version-1 superblock (which currently aren't being used) to always user a predictable checksum algorithm. Thanks to Mike Tran <mhtran@us.ibm.com> for noticing this. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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