Probably not. It's just that CRC128/CRC160/CRC256 primitives are not as common as MD5/SHA1/SHA256. I did not, from Linus' post, get the impression he believes

Probably not. It's just that CRC128/CRC160/CRC256 primitives are not as common as MD5/SHA1/SHA256. I did not, from Linus' post, get the impression he believes SHA1 are more magical than CRC except in the "image / second primage" sense.