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| author | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> | 2003-01-03 06:31:22 -0500 |
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| committer | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> | 2003-01-03 06:31:22 -0500 |
| commit | 50dc25991bb4597167bddd7e7fab94733b2fd589 (patch) | |
| tree | e4869a9ed1ab49b662127a8e7689ff4d4130b1e3 /include | |
| parent | 2622cf1d8e4fdc94611556fe8254725a73356576 (diff) | |
| parent | 2bf2d02423b2f1d60e2f4056928885ec85ad4ced (diff) | |
Merge redhat.com:/home/jgarzik/repo/linus-2.5
into redhat.com:/home/jgarzik/repo/net-drivers-2.5
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/crc32.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/crc32.h b/include/linux/crc32.h index a0033ffee91c..56c0645789a9 100644 --- a/include/linux/crc32.h +++ b/include/linux/crc32.h @@ -9,9 +9,19 @@ extern u32 crc32_le(u32 crc, unsigned char const *p, size_t len); extern u32 crc32_be(u32 crc, unsigned char const *p, size_t len); +extern u32 bitreverse(u32 in); #define crc32(seed, data, length) crc32_le(seed, (unsigned char const *)data, length) + +/* + * Helpers for hash table generation of ethernet nics: + * + * Ethernet sends the least significant bit of a byte first, thus crc32_le + * is used. The output of crc32_le is bit reversed [most significant bit + * is in bit nr 0], thus it must be reversed before use. Except for + * nics that bit swap the result internally... + */ +#define ether_crc(length, data) bitreverse(crc32_le(~0, data, length)) #define ether_crc_le(length, data) crc32_le(~0, data, length) -#define ether_crc(length, data) crc32_be(~0, data, length) #endif /* _LINUX_CRC32_H */ |