On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:25:16AM +0200, Peter Hüwe wrote: > Hi, > > I had a quick look at the slicoss driver in the staging directory and was > wondering if anything speaks against using the crc32 functionality provided by > the kernel instead of reimplementing it. > > The slic_mcast_init_crc32 function looks quite a bit similar to the > crc32init_le function in the kernel and e equals CRCPOLY_LE after the for > loop. > (btw the comment is missing x^0) > > > -> So can't we use ether_crc from include/linux/crc32.h instead of calculation > the mac hash by ourselves? Or am I missing something? > (not sure whether ether_crc or ether_crc_le is the correct one) I have no idea, try it and see :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
