On 5/2/07, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I looked around a bit with grep -R and a few search terms but didn't find something definite. Is there any other user of a crc16_itu_t or crc_ccitt or whatever which operates on a (CPU byte ordered) u32[] instead of on a (network byte ordered) u8[]?
I was referring to this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/12/137 On 5/2/07, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The only value in having a shared implementation would be a potentially smaller kernel. Sharing it to ensure correctness is not an issue; fw-topology.c::crc16_itu_t is simply the one in IEEE 1212 table 5. Performance is also not an issue (if better algorithms exist) because the FireWire stack uses it only infrequently on a moderate amount of data.
Yeah, it's not a biggie, but we do have a tradition of putting generally useful things into lib/ so that everyone doesn't invent their own. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/