From: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] scatterlist: new helper functions
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:58:45 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <890633.77912.qm@web37605.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
>
> The functions that were added:
>
> * sg_nents/sg_total_len - interate over sg list to figure
You've got a typo here.
> out its total len, number of entries.
> Useful for not keeping that information in side channels.
>
> Allows to transparetly compare contents of the sg list to
> given linear
And here.
> buffer.
> If needed later, a function that compares two sgs can be
> added.
>
> All of this code is used by my ms_block.c driver.
>
I definitely find this useful.
But, of course, we need to ask somebody from the memory management
department to look at it, as this patch is intended to be not memorystick
specific.
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-11 2:58 Alex Dubov [this message]
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2011-03-04 4:16 [PATH 0/4] Memstick patches for 2.6.39 Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-04 4:16 ` [PATCH 1/4] scatterlist: new helper functions Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-06 7:29 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2011-03-06 15:14 ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-06 21:49 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2011-03-07 2:20 ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-09 17:24 ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-16 0:44 ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-16 2:35 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2011-03-16 4:18 ` Alex Dubov
2011-03-16 4:55 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2011-03-17 3:46 ` Alex Dubov
2011-03-17 3:57 ` James Bottomley
2011-03-16 22:33 ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-17 6:41 ` Alex Dubov
2011-03-17 13:17 ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-18 0:59 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2011-01-11 23:36 [PATCH V2 0/4]: MEMSTICK: My 2 drivers for 2.6.38 inclusion Maxim Levitsky
2011-01-11 23:36 ` [PATCH 1/4] scatterlist: new helper functions Maxim Levitsky
2011-01-11 23:51 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-01-11 23:55 ` Andrew Morton
2011-01-11 23:58 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-01-12 2:52 ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-01-12 6:41 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-01-11 1:50 MEMSTICK: My 2 drivers for 2.6.38 inclusion Maxim Levitsky
2011-01-11 1:50 ` [PATCH 1/4] scatterlist: new helper functions Maxim Levitsky
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