From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from 68.mail-out.ovh.net ([91.121.185.69]) by bombadil.infradead.org with smtp (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1OyRx0-0005tV-KF for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:13:43 +0000 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:12:18 +0200 From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD Message-ID: <20100922161218.GW32018@game.jcrosoft.org> References: <1285151785-507-1-git-send-email-plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> <20100922123613.GD23406@pengutronix.de> <87d3s5by0y.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <20100922160834.GG23406@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100922160834.GG23406@pengutronix.de> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: barebox-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] commands/crc32: add compare 2 files crc To: Sascha Hauer Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org On 18:08 Wed 22 Sep , Sascha Hauer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 05:25:49PM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > > >>>>> "Sascha" == Sascha Hauer writes: > > > > Sascha> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:36:25PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > > >> add -F options to compare to file crc > > >> > > >> it's usefull to compare what you flash in a partition > > > > Sascha> Why don't you use memcmp? > > > > Sascha> memcmp -s uImage -d /dev/nand0.kernel.bb 0 0 > > > > It's sometimes interesting to be able to compare a checksum with a file > > on the host (E.G. output of cksum/md5sum/sha1sum/..) > > crc32 can output the crc checksum of a file using the -f option. What > Jean-Christophe added is an option to calculate the checksum of two > files (one given with -f and the other with -F). I just fail to see why > this must be done in a single step instead of using a crc32 followed by > a memcmp. it's faster btw Best Regards, J. _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox