Re: CCITT-CRC16 in kernel

[Paul Fulghum]

linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:

> the CCIT-16 CRC. I note that drivers that use it expect it
> to return 0xf0b8 if it performs the CRC of something that
> has the CRC appended (weird).

That is the remainder you get when checking
a received CRC for correctness. If the value
is not 0xf0b8, there is an error in the block.

--
Paul Fulghum
Microgate Systems, Ltd
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