Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:54274 "EHLO mail-gx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752612Ab1JZWY3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:24:29 -0400 Received: by ggnb1 with SMTP id b1so2018985ggn.19 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:24:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4EA888AE.30406@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20111027_002439_797599_033EE88F) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:24:46 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Buesch , =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= CC: b43-dev , wireless Subject: Switching ssb to read 8-bit quantities from SPROM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. Larry