Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 24 Sep 2001 01:39:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: do we need 10 copies? |
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kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Kai Germaschewski) wrote on 23.09.01 in <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109232106020.14414-100000@vaio>:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Garst R. Reese wrote: > > > This table (512 bytes) and the code to implement crc-ccit is replicated > > in 10 drivers. ppp-async even exports it. Surely there is a better way. > > As for the ISDN code (4 copies), there is the plan to use a a common HDLC > en/decoding module, however that's a 2.5 thing. I'll take a look if I can > find a generic solution then, but it might turn out difficult - having a > module of its own just for that table wastes nearly a page, so that's > probably worse than the current state of affairs.
Why a module? Just make it something the base kernel exports, like other general library functions.
Oh, and ISTR that there are also still a number of zlib copies ... and, uh, about the PPP code ...
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