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[PATCH] atl1e: remove unnecessary crc inversion

From: J. K. Cliburn <hidden>
Date: 2008-11-11 22:21:54
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

atl1e: remove unnecessary crc inversion

Inverting the crc after calling ether_crc_le() is unnecessary and breaks
multicast. Remove it.

Tested-by: David Madore <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jay Cliburn <redacted>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
---
 drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_hw.c |    4 ----
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_hw.c b/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_hw.c
index 949e753..c0d5f7c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_hw.c
@@ -163,9 +163,6 @@ int atl1e_read_mac_addr(struct atl1e_hw *hw)
  * atl1e_hash_mc_addr
  *  purpose
  *      set hash value for a multicast address
- *      hash calcu processing :
- *          1. calcu 32bit CRC for multicast address
- *          2. reverse crc with MSB to LSB
  */
 u32 atl1e_hash_mc_addr(struct atl1e_hw *hw, u8 *mc_addr)
 {
@@ -174,7 +171,6 @@ u32 atl1e_hash_mc_addr(struct atl1e_hw *hw, u8 *mc_addr)
 	int i;
 
 	crc32 = ether_crc_le(6, mc_addr);
-	crc32 = ~crc32;
 	for (i = 0; i < 32; i++)
 		value |= (((crc32 >> i) & 1) << (31 - i));
 
-- 
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