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From: Thomas Sailer <sailer@scs.ch>
To: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] 2.6.7-mm2, Use it in AX.25 drivers
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:53:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088441634.4382.85.camel@kronenbourg.scs.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10880815524130@donpac.ru>

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 14:52, Andrey Panin wrote:
> This patch makes AX.25 drivers use common crc16 code.

Hrm, isn't this bit of a misnamer? 

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...

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-28 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-24 12:52 [PATCH 0/4] 2.6.7-mm2, Add common CRC16 module Andrey Panin
2004-06-24 12:52 ` [PATCH 1/4] 2.6.7-mm2, Use it in async PPP driver Andrey Panin
2004-06-24 12:52   ` [PATCH 2/4] 2.6.7-mm2, Use it in IRDA drivers Andrey Panin
2004-06-24 12:52     ` [PATCH 3/4] 2.6.7-mm2, Use it in ISDN drivers Andrey Panin
2004-06-24 12:52       ` [PATCH 4/4] 2.6.7-mm2, Use it in AX.25 drivers Andrey Panin
2004-06-28 16:53         ` Thomas Sailer [this message]
2004-06-29  6:36           ` Andrey Panin

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