Hi Jiri,
> Hi Dominik,
>
> I am afraid that my networking changes will render your patch irrelevant. In
> my
> branch I have re-implemented the internet checksum in a different way and
> dropped the CRC, since it's not needed anywhere at the moment.
Well, I need it, that's why I moved it.
> Also note that
> the method Lukas uses for CRC32 computation is very naive - it is slow and
> also,
> for some unknown reason, endian-dependent. There exist table-based methods
> which
> can compute CRC32 with one table lookup per input byte, rather than
> calculating
> bit by bit, and they are endian-independent, I believe.
Well, I can try to reimplement the CRC. Or is anyone working on it (or is going
to)?
>
> Cheers,
> Jiri
>
>
> Dominik Taborsky wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Since checksum and CRC32 computations are fairly common, I have made a patch
> to
> > move those two from libnet to libc. There are no other changes than moving 4
> > functions from uspace/lib/net/generic/net_checksum.{c, h} to checksum.{c,h}
> in
> > libc.
> >
> > Also, I have been told networking is under refactoring, so Jiri, any
> comments?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dominik Taborsky
> >
> >
>
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