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Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:31:34 +0200
From:	Pidoux <f6bvp@...e.fr>
To:	David Robb <ender@...adise.gen.nz>
CC:	linux-hams@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: baycom_ser_fdx - fixed under 2.6

Hi,

This is a trivial but very important bug fix. Thanks David.
It was probably not submitted to the right destination and thus never applied.

This bug may have discouraged more than one radioamateur wishing to experiment baycom style modems under Linux.
Fortunately you have done a very good historical search.

I rebuilt the patch against 2.6.26 kernel (the only source I have here on my laptop at my remote location during vacation).

I Cc: to David Miller and Ralf Baechle DL5RB maintainers of Linux net devices drivers and Linux AX25 drivers, respectively.

73 de Bernard, f6bvp


--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c	2008-07-22 10:40:20.000000000 +0200
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c	2008-07-22 10:42:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@
  static inline void append_crc_ccitt(unsigned char *buffer, int len)
  {
   	unsigned int crc = crc_ccitt(0xffff, buffer, len) ^ 0xffff;
+	buffer += len;
  	*buffer++ = crc;
  	*buffer++ = crc >> 8;
  }



David Robb wrote :
> So it seems that I might be the only person in the world who's still 
> attempting to use a Baycom bp-1 pocket modem under Linux, but oh well..
> 
> As a number of people noticed back in about 2005 (and some even 
> earlier), the baycom_ser_fdx driver hasn't worked under Linux 2.6 for a 
> few years (possibly ever).
> 
> Various people poked around 
> (http://osdir.com/ml/hams/2005-05/msg00022.html) and determined that 
> there was some kind of packet corruption going on, and that the CRC was 
> mangled.
> 
> Well, after bashing my head against it a few times over the last few 
> months (I guess I was bored), and finally thinking that it mightn't be 
> in the baycom_ser_fdx driver that the problem actually was, I tracked it 
> down to the hdlcdrv code instead...
> 
> Someone called Micah actually figured this out in 2004, and submitted a 
> patch, but it never made it into the kernel (at least in my 2.6.25.7 
> it's still broken):
> 
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2004-11/2929.html
> 
> The CRC's overwriting some of the packet...
> 
> So anyway, applying the patch listed at that URL (1 line! Just one 
> little line!) my BP-1 now works again under 2.6.25.
> 
> Perhaps I'm strange for wanting this working in these days of high speed 
> links, but hey... it seems sad to have broken code and no support where 
> there used to be a functional device.
> 
> Anyway, share and enjoy.
> 
> --David ZL3UDR
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