crc32: add note about this patchset to crc32.c

Add a comment at the top of crc32.c [djwong@us.ibm.com: Minor changelog tweaks] Signed-off-by: Bob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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 /*
+ * Aug 8, 2011 Bob Pearson with help from Joakim Tjernlund and George Spelvin
+ * cleaned up code to current version of sparse and added the slicing-by-8
+ * algorithm to the closely similar existing slicing-by-4 algorithm.
+ *
 * Oct 15, 2000 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
 * Nicer crc32 functions/docs submitted by linux@horizon.com.  Thanks!
 * Code was from the public domain, copyright abandoned.  Code was