On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:28:42 -0500
Larry Finger <[email protected]> wrote:
> The kernel now contains library routines to establish crc8 tables and
> to calculate the appropriate sums. Use them for ssb.
> +static u8 srom_crc8_table[CRC8_TABLE_SIZE];
> +
> +/* Polynomial: x^8 + x^7 + x^6 + x^4 + x^2 + 1 */
> +#define SROM_CRC8_POLY 0xAB
> +
> +static inline void ltoh16_buf(u16 *buf, unsigned int size)
> {
> + size /= 2;
> + while (size--)
> + *(buf + size) = le16_to_cpu(*(__le16 *)(buf + size));
> +}
>
> - return crc;
> +static inline void htol16_buf(u16 *buf, unsigned int size)
> +{
> + size /= 2;
> + while (size--)
> + *(__le16 *)(buf + size) = cpu_to_le16(*(buf + size));
> }
> return -ENOMEM;
> + crc8_populate_lsb(srom_crc8_table, SROM_CRC8_POLY);
> bus->sprom_size = SSB_SPROMSIZE_WORDS_R123;
> sprom_do_read(bus, buf);
> + /* convert to le */
> + htol16_buf(buf, 2 * bus->sprom_size);
> bus->sprom_size = SSB_SPROMSIZE_WORDS_R4;
> sprom_do_read(bus, buf);
> + htol16_buf(buf, 2 * bus->sprom_size);
> err = sprom_check_crc(buf, bus->sprom_size);
> + /* restore endianess */
> + ltoh16_buf(buf, 2 * bus->sprom_size);
> err = sprom_extract(bus, sprom, buf, bus->sprom_size);
This endianness stuff is _really_ ugly.
Does this patch decrease the code size, at least? I'll almost doubt it.
If it doesn't, why are we actually doing this?
It doesn't even decrease the .data size. Worse, it converts a .const
table to a .data table.
Just my 2 cents.
--
Greetings, Michael.
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