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From: "Michael Büsch" <m@bues.ch>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: "Michael Buesch" <mb@bu3sch.de>,
	"Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
	b43-dev <b43-dev@lists.infradead.org>,
	wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Switching ssb to read 8-bit quantities from SPROM
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:59:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111027065911.43c6c49c@milhouse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EA888AE.30406@lwfinger.net>

On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:24:46 -0500
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:

> I tested the effects of changing ssb to read the SSPROM in 8-bit hunks rather 
> than as 16-bit words in the manner that was just submitted for brcmsmac. 
> Although this simplifies the calculation of the crc8, it only reduced the size 
> of the module by 31 bytes, thus I will not be submitting the patch.
> 
> When the library version of the crc8 routine was used rather than the one built 
> into ssb, the size of the driver was increased by 17 bytes.

Well, if this doesn't cause regressions due to the changed reads, I'm OK
with it (as in I don't really care either way).
But it has to be tested on b44, too.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-27  4:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-26 22:24 Switching ssb to read 8-bit quantities from SPROM Larry Finger
2011-10-27  4:59 ` Michael Büsch [this message]

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