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From: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sg_next() for struct scatterlist is confusing
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:31:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071027183130.0215e355@siona> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710270734210.24293@localhost.localdomain>

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:39:40 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:

>   note how the comment says that the next entry will "usually" be
> sg+1, "but" not if it's actually a pointer.
> 
>   however, as i read the code above, sg is *always* incremented before
> that testing.  is that correct?  am i just misreading something?  or
> could the comment have been a bit clearer?

If it increments sg and finds a "chain" entry, it will follow it to the
next sg array instead of just returning it. Which makes sense because
the chain entry itself isn't a valid entry in the sg list.

Håvard

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-27 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-27 11:39 sg_next() for struct scatterlist is confusing Robert P. J. Day
2007-10-27 16:31 ` Haavard Skinnemoen [this message]
2007-10-27 16:35   ` Robert P. J. Day

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