Re: reiserfs NET=n build error

From: Al Viro
Date: Sun Nov 19 2006 - 15:53:00 EST


On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 12:09:22PM -0500, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> > I would copy a relatively simple C implementation, like arch/h8300/lib/checksum.c
>
> As long as the h8300 version has the same output as the x86 version.

As the matter of fact, h8300 version is severely broken and no, it
definitely does *not* give the same values. Not even guaranteed
to be the same mod 0xffff is some cases, which is very much not
OK for networking uses.
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