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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:52:29 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: hv: Replace typedef SG_BUFFER_LIST by struct
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To: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:35:08PM +0200, Nicolas Palix wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 05:37:23PM +0200, Nicolas Palix wrote:
> >>
> >> typedef SG_BUFFER_LIST is removed and its uses are replaced by the use of
> >> struct scatterlist.
> >
> > Sweet!  thanks for doing this, very nice job, I'll go queue it up.
> 
> I tried to change the RingBuffer too but I did not know
> which API I should use.
> The ring buffer in kernel/trace seems fine but it has some
> dedicated features.
> 
> Any hint?
> Of which infrastructure are you thinking in your previous mail?

I was thinking of include/linux/ring_buffer.h

Does that not work for you?

thanks,

greg k-h