Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265499AbUF2Ggy (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2004 02:36:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265500AbUF2Ggy (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2004 02:36:54 -0400 Received: from mail.donpac.ru ([80.254.111.2]:32202 "EHLO donpac.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265499AbUF2Ggw (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2004 02:36:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:36:45 +0400 From: Andrey Panin To: Thomas Sailer Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] 2.6.7-mm2, Use it in AX.25 drivers Message-ID: <20040629063645.GF13200@pazke> Mail-Followup-To: Thomas Sailer , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <10880815524130@donpac.ru> <1088441634.4382.85.camel@kronenbourg.scs.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FsscpQKzF/jJk6ya" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1088441634.4382.85.camel@kronenbourg.scs.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i X-SMTP-Authenticated: pazke@donpac.ru (cram) X-SMTP-TLS: TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1398 Lines: 43 --FsscpQKzF/jJk6ya Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > Hrm, isn't this bit of a misnamer?=20 >=20 > 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). --=20 Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke@donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net --FsscpQKzF/jJk6ya Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA4Q39by9O0+A2ZecRAol7AJ9QolFzo3lwRKX2KXmAg3ZnJhCa2wCffaCf W6kT8Qfk3BQuqYHwR7IFe20= =cvS5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FsscpQKzF/jJk6ya-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/