Re: + kfifo-replace-the-old-non-generic-api-kfifo-fix-scatterlist-usage.patch added to -mm tree

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:29:11 +0200
Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> wrote:

> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 02.06.2010, 13:19 -0700 schrieb
> akpm@linux-foundation.org:
> > The patch titled
> >      kfifo: fix scatterlist usage
> > has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
> >      kfifo-replace-the-old-non-generic-api-kfifo-fix-scatterlist-usage.patch
> > 
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> > 
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> > 
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> > 
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> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Subject: kfifo: fix scatterlist usage
> > From: Ira W. Snyder <kernel@irasnyder.com>
> > 
> > The current kfifo scatterlist implementation will not work with chained
> > scatterlists.  It assumes that struct scatterlist arrays are allocated
> > contiguously, which is not the case when chained scatterlists (struct
> > sg_table) are in use.
> > 
> 
> Why do you have added this?

Because nobody reviewed the code.

> No one had reviewed the code and no one gave
> an ack. I am currently to busy to check this.

And I don't have the bandwidth to track hundreds of maybe, maybe-not
emails stretching over months of time.  So generally I'll just apply
the thing if it looks good so that I can keep track of it and so that
it gets some testing.