Re: CRC of data packet

David Brownell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sunday 15 April 2007 11:07 am, John Wojnaroski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been plowing through the various specs on USB trying to find an 
> answer, but my eyes are starting to hurt ;-)
> 
> Perhaps some one knows the answer and a pointer to the reference
> 
> Does USB require a CRC of the data packet for the four types of msgs 
> sent?  If so is that value calculated by the software or the hardware 
> chip?  If software, in the kernel or by the application?

Hardware handles the end-of-packet CRCs; software never sees them.


> Using usbmon does not give any indication that a CRC is appended to the 
> packet.  However, the device I'm sending to expects to see a CRC value.  
> It works with an MS windows test program, but I don't have the source, 
> just the .exe file and the results.
> 
> Regards
> John
> 
> 

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