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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
>
> Keeping track of the total size is trivial for the helpers, and it
> allows buffer allocation without looping over the iovec once.
>
> qemu_iovec_from_buffer got a length parameter (number of bytes to copy)
> so we can handle partial reads correctly.
>   

Applied.  Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> cheers,
>   Gerd
>