>> But that comment clearly indicates that _someone_ thought it
>> reasonable to checksum before swapping, so I can't help wondering
>> what use case that's appropriate for.
> It's a checksum over the 16bit words in native byte order. So when
> you access the words in opposite byte order, you need
mo...@rodents-montreal.org (Mouse) writes:
>But that comment clearly indicates that _someone_ thought it
>reasonable to checksum before swapping, so I can't help wondering what
>use case that's appropriate for.
It's a checksum over the 16bit words in native byte order. So when
you access the word
In sys/dev/dkwedge/dkwedge_bsdlabel.c, I find (and I see more or less
the same code in 5.2 and what cvsweb.n.o shows me)
static int
validate_label(mbr_args_t *a, daddr_t label_sector, size_t label_offset)
{
...
/*
* We have validated the partition count. Checksum
