Return-path: Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:36959 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752039Ab1JOOSi (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:18:38 -0400 Received: by iaek3 with SMTP id k3so3872095iae.19 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:18:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E999645.2070800@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20111015_161845_399707_93739235) Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:18:45 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_B=FCsch?= CC: Arend van Spriel , Pavel Roskin , John W Linville , Michael Buesch , "zajec5@gmail.com" , "b43-dev@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] ssb: Convert to use crc8 code in kernel library References: <4e90ce9a.89uGF659NNpbpyA3%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <20111014111103.5658d4aa@mj> <4E986392.7020008@lwfinger.net> <4E9943D5.1060607@broadcom.com> <4E998AA1.4080907@lwfinger.net> <20111015155306.6bd1e695@milhouse> In-Reply-To: <20111015155306.6bd1e695@milhouse> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/15/2011 08:53 AM, Michael B?sch wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:29:05 -0500 > Larry Finger wrote: > >>> I plan to fill the buffer using 8-bit reads from SPROM, > >> That sounds like a good plan. When that is posted, I'll study if that kind of >> change makes sense for ssb. > > If this change is made, it has to be tested on all supported devices, IMO. > I would not be surprised if there are older devices that don't like that. Two of my devices are a BCM4303 (14e4:4301), and an early BCM4306. There are not likely to be any older than that. Larry