Re: ether_crc32_[bl]e()

From: M. Warner Losh (imp_at_bsdimp.com)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 11:29:17 -0600 (MDT)
To: naddy@mips.inka.de

In message: <c9d9u3$o6k$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
            naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) writes:
: NetBSD and OpenBSD have two helper functions in if_ethersubr.c
:
: ether_crc32_le(const u_int8_t *buf, size_t len)
------------------------^^^^^^^^ uint8_t
: ether_crc32_be(const u_int8_t *buf, size_t len)
------------------------^^^^^^^^ uint8_t

: These CRCs are used all over our network drivers, e.g. for setting
: up multicast hash filters. Functions to calculate them are duplicated
: all over. These could be factored out of some thirty drivers.
: NetBSD has done so, btw.
...

The other comment that I have about this stuff is to make sure that if
you are directly copying these routines form somewhere, you make sure
that you give proper credit in the if_ethersubr.c file.

: +ether_crc32_be(const u_int8_t *buf, size_t len)
------------------------^^^^^^^^ uint8_t

Warner
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