On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 15:30 +0800, Bean wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> BTW, any comment about the other changes ? > >> > > >> > Why do we need "crc"? If there are chances that it will be used for > >> > security, we should be using SHA-1. > >> > >> crc is useful in many place. For example, png, jffs2, etc. > > > > But why make it a command? > > There are two parts, one is lib/crc.c, which contains only the crc > function, the other is command/crc.c, which is a command to calculate > the crc of selected file. Although it's not necessary to have a > command, but it can 1) serve as an example of how to use the crc > function, 2) as a cheap way to verify if a file is read correctly by > the fs driver.
OK, then it's probably a good idea. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
