From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030264AbVHJUzF (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:55:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030266AbVHJUzF (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:55:05 -0400 Received: from mail734.megamailservers.com ([69.49.98.44]:9355 "EHLO mail734.megamailservers.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030264AbVHJUzC (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:55:02 -0400 X-Authenticated-User: paulkf.microgate.com Message-ID: <42FA692B.4030406@microgate.com> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:52:59 -0500 From: Paul Fulghum User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" CC: Linux kernel Subject: Re: CCITT-CRC16 in kernel References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: >the CCIT-16 CRC. I note that drivers that use it expect it >to return 0xf0b8 if it performs the CRC of something that >has the CRC appended (weird). > That is the remainder you get when checking a received CRC for correctness. If the value is not 0xf0b8, there is an error in the block. -- Paul Fulghum Microgate Systems, Ltd