Switching ssb to read 8-bit quantities from SPROM

[Michael Büsch]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:24:46 -0500
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net> wrote:

> I tested the effects of changing ssb to read the SSPROM in 8-bit hunks rather 
> than as 16-bit words in the manner that was just submitted for brcmsmac. 
> Although this simplifies the calculation of the crc8, it only reduced the size 
> of the module by 31 bytes, thus I will not be submitting the patch.
> 
> When the library version of the crc8 routine was used rather than the one built 
> into ssb, the size of the driver was increased by 17 bytes.

Well, if this doesn't cause regressions due to the changed reads, I'm OK
with it (as in I don't really care either way).
But it has to be tested on b44, too.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.