From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: do we need 10 copies?
Date: 24 Sep 2001 01:39:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <89VcLXc1w-B@khms.westfalen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109232106020.14414-100000@vaio>
In-Reply-To: <3BAE2283.41E7E8E8@isn.net> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109232106020.14414-100000@vaio>
kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Kai Germaschewski) wrote on 23.09.01 in <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109232106020.14414-100000@vaio>:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Garst R. Reese wrote:
>
> > This table (512 bytes) and the code to implement crc-ccit is replicated
> > in 10 drivers. ppp-async even exports it. Surely there is a better way.
>
> As for the ISDN code (4 copies), there is the plan to use a a common HDLC
> en/decoding module, however that's a 2.5 thing. I'll take a look if I can
> find a generic solution then, but it might turn out difficult - having a
> module of its own just for that table wastes nearly a page, so that's
> probably worse than the current state of affairs.
Why a module? Just make it something the base kernel exports, like other
general library functions.
Oh, and ISTR that there are also still a number of zlib copies ... and,
uh, about the PPP code ...
MfG Kai
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-24 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-23 17:57 do we need 10 copies? Garst R. Reese
2001-09-23 19:24 ` Kai Germaschewski
2001-09-23 22:36 ` Dan Hollis
2001-09-23 23:39 ` Kai Henningsen [this message]
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