[PATCH v2 1/3] net: add thread-safe crc api

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue,  1 Oct 2024 19:11:48 +0100
Arkadiusz Kusztal <arkadiuszx.kusztal at intel.com> wrote:

> The current net CRC API is not thread-safe, this patch
> solves this by adding another, thread-safe API functions.

Couldn't the old API be made threadsafe with TLS?

> This API is also safe to use across multiple processes,
> yet with limitations on max-simd-bitwidth, which will be checked only by
> the process that created the CRC context; all other processes will use
> the same CRC function when used with the same CRC context.
> It is an undefined behavior when process binaries are compiled
> with different SIMD capabilities when the same CRC context is used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arkadiusz Kusztal <arkadiuszx.kusztal at intel.com>

The API/ABI can't change for 25.03, do you want to support both?
Or wait until 25.11?