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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-04-08 17:28:37 -0400
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-04-08 17:28:37 -0400
commit099f53cb50e45ef617a9f1d63ceec799e489418b (patch)
treefd57f259f58bcf615fe2b17734ed0cbec612782d /Documentation
parentfd74ea65883c7e6903e9b652795f72b723a2be69 (diff)
async_tx: rename zero_sum to val
'zero_sum' does not properly describe the operation of generating parity and checking that it validates against an existing buffer. Change the name of the operation to 'val' (for 'validate'). This is in anticipation of the p+q case where it is a requirement to identify the target parity buffers separately from the source buffers, because the target parity buffers will not have corresponding pq coefficients. Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt b/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt
index 9f59fcbf5d82..4af12180d191 100644
--- a/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt
@@ -61,13 +61,13 @@ async_<operation>(<op specific parameters>,
61 void *callback_parameter); 61 void *callback_parameter);
62 62
633.2 Supported operations: 633.2 Supported operations:
64memcpy - memory copy between a source and a destination buffer 64memcpy - memory copy between a source and a destination buffer
65memset - fill a destination buffer with a byte value 65memset - fill a destination buffer with a byte value
66xor - xor a series of source buffers and write the result to a 66xor - xor a series of source buffers and write the result to a
67 destination buffer 67 destination buffer
68xor_zero_sum - xor a series of source buffers and set a flag if the 68xor_val - xor a series of source buffers and set a flag if the
69 result is zero. The implementation attempts to prevent 69 result is zero. The implementation attempts to prevent
70 writes to memory 70 writes to memory
71 71
723.3 Descriptor management: 723.3 Descriptor management:
73The return value is non-NULL and points to a 'descriptor' when the operation 73The return value is non-NULL and points to a 'descriptor' when the operation