use kernel crc functionality (?)

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:25:16AM +0200, Peter Hüwe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had a quick look at the slicoss driver in the staging directory and was 
> wondering if anything speaks against using the crc32 functionality provided by 
> the kernel instead of reimplementing it.
> 
> The slic_mcast_init_crc32 function looks quite a bit similar to the 
> crc32init_le function in the kernel and e equals CRCPOLY_LE after the for 
> loop. 
> (btw the comment is missing x^0)
> 
> 
> -> So can't we use ether_crc from include/linux/crc32.h instead of calculation 
> the mac hash by ourselves? Or am I missing something?
> (not sure whether ether_crc or ether_crc_le is the correct one)

I have no idea, try it and see :)

thanks,

greg k-h