From 136d029662cdde77d3e4db5c07de655f35f0239f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rakuram Eswaran Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:56:13 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/staging: Fix typo and incorrect citation in crc32.rst In Documentation/staging/crc32.rst, below errors have been corrected: 1. Line 37: from "to being" to "to bring" 2. Line 119: Incorrect citation date: It must be August 1988 instead of August 1998 Signed-off-by: Rakuram Eswaran Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250820162615.6942-1-rakuram.e96@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers --- Documentation/staging/crc32.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/staging/crc32.rst b/Documentation/staging/crc32.rst index 7542220967cb..64f3dd430a6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/staging/crc32.rst +++ b/Documentation/staging/crc32.rst @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ do it in the right order, matching the endianness. Just like with ordinary division, you proceed one digit (bit) at a time. Each step of the division you take one more digit (bit) of the dividend and append it to the current remainder. Then you figure out the -appropriate multiple of the divisor to subtract to being the remainder +appropriate multiple of the divisor to subtract to bring the remainder back into range. In binary, this is easy - it has to be either 0 or 1, and to make the XOR cancel, it's just a copy of bit 32 of the remainder. @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ for any fractional bytes at the end. To reduce the number of conditional branches, software commonly uses the byte-at-a-time table method, popularized by Dilip V. Sarwate, "Computation of Cyclic Redundancy Checks via Table Look-Up", Comm. ACM -v.31 no.8 (August 1998) p. 1008-1013. +v.31 no.8 (August 1988) p. 1008-1013. Here, rather than just shifting one bit of the remainder to decide in the correct multiple to subtract, we can shift a byte at a time. -- 2.20.1