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    DateWed, 2 May 2007 23:35:38 +0300
    From"Pekka Enberg" <>
    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/6] firewire: handling of cards, buses, nodes
    On 5/2/07, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
    > I looked around a bit with grep -R and a few search terms but didn't
    > find something definite.  Is there any other user of a crc16_itu_t or
    > crc_ccitt or whatever which operates on a (CPU byte ordered) u32[]
    > instead of on a (network byte ordered) u8[]?
    
    I was referring to this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/12/137
    
    On 5/2/07, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
    > The only value in having a shared implementation would be a potentially
    > smaller kernel.  Sharing it to ensure correctness is not an issue;
    > fw-topology.c::crc16_itu_t is simply the one in IEEE 1212 table 5.
    > Performance is also not an issue (if better algorithms exist) because
    > the FireWire stack uses it only infrequently on a moderate amount of data.
    
    Yeah, it's not a biggie, but we do have a tradition of putting
    generally useful things into lib/ so that everyone doesn't invent
    their own.
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