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From: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
To: Thomas Sailer <sailer@scs.ch>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] 2.6.7-mm2, Use it in AX.25 drivers
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:36:45 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040629063645.GF13200@pazke> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1088441634.4382.85.camel@kronenbourg.scs.ch>

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On 180, 06 28, 2004 at 06:53:54PM +0200, Thomas Sailer wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 14:52, Andrey Panin wrote:
> > This patch makes AX.25 drivers use common crc16 code.
> 
> Hrm, isn't this bit of a misnamer? 
> 
> While the polynomial usually known as "CCITT" or "X25" is
> x^16+x^12+x^5+x^0, CRC-16 usually means the polynomial
> x^16+x^15+x^2+x^0. So to avoid confusion I suggest renaming it from
> CRC16 to CRCCCITT or similar...

Yeah I see, it's really CCITT CRC and it's really misnamed :(
I'll post a patch to fix it (probably tomorrow).

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Andrey Panin		| Linux and UNIX system administrator
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      reply	other threads:[~2004-06-29  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-24 12:52 [PATCH 0/4] 2.6.7-mm2, Add common CRC16 module Andrey Panin
2004-06-24 12:52 ` [PATCH 1/4] 2.6.7-mm2, Use it in async PPP driver Andrey Panin
2004-06-24 12:52   ` [PATCH 2/4] 2.6.7-mm2, Use it in IRDA drivers Andrey Panin
2004-06-24 12:52     ` [PATCH 3/4] 2.6.7-mm2, Use it in ISDN drivers Andrey Panin
2004-06-24 12:52       ` [PATCH 4/4] 2.6.7-mm2, Use it in AX.25 drivers Andrey Panin
2004-06-28 16:53         ` Thomas Sailer
2004-06-29  6:36           ` Andrey Panin [this message]

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