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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 08/15] staging: unisys: visorhba: use sg helper to
 operate sgl
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:52:14 +0200
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 03:13:28PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> The current way isn't safe for chained sgl, so use sg helper to
> operate sgl.

I can not make any sense out of this changelog.

What "isn't safe"?  What is a "sgl"?

Can this be applied "out of order"?

confused,

greg k-h