Re: [RFC] lib: crc8: add new library module providing crc8 algorithm

["Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 05/24/2011 11:44 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2011 09:45:47 +0200
> "Arend van Spriel"<arend@broadcom.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 05/22/2011 04:19 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>>> Is it just used for wireless in this form ?
>>>
>>> See the n_gsm and bluetooth code for what I think is the same crc
>>> algorithm but in reverse bit order .
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> Look into the code in n_gsm and bluetooth code. The algorithm is the
>> same, but except for the bit order it also is using a different
>> polynomial. My current implementation has a fixed table. I could do the
>> table generation runtime with the polynomial and the bit order as
>> parameters. That would make it more general purpose.
> Probably not worth it - its so tiny a piece of code anyway (<  500 bytes
> or so) that it's going to be bigger not smaller if you do that !

Hi Alan,

Not sure whether you mean the source code or the object code. I build 
kernel with debug symbols so the sizes are bit higher.

fixed table:        -rw-r--r-- 1 arend arend 1859 2011-05-24 11:53 crc8.o
custom table:    -rw-r--r-- 1 arend arend 2215 2011-05-24 11:58 crc8.o

The size increase is not that big.

Gr. AvS

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