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authorStefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>2014-01-26 12:11:54 +0100
committerStefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>2014-01-26 12:11:54 +0100
commit707acd01ded3c60a4e277f7c5432d397897b4dfd (patch)
tree5730e1e1f0bac6c1aeddc261cb412fc3d5f220fd /include/linux/crc8.h
parentbe2a3bb39adf1fdd274fc427e30ef62eb86441a1 (diff)
parentc71b4dd2da0dcddabd7c29e6c3dc8a495d4bd928 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-arm
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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Google, Inc
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+ */
+
+
+#ifndef __linux_crc8_h
+#define __linux_crc8_h
+
+/**
+ * crc8() - Calculate and return CRC-8 of the data
+ *
+ * This uses an x^8 + x^2 + x + 1 polynomial. A table-based algorithm would
+ * be faster, but for only a few bytes it isn't worth the code size
+ *
+ * @vptr: Buffer to checksum
+ * @len: Length of buffer in bytes
+ * @return CRC8 checksum
+ */
+unsigned int crc8(const unsigned char *vptr, int len);
+
+#endif