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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:53:41 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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On Wed, Oct 31 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
>    Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:46:50 +0100
>    
>    How is this different from my init_sg proposal? :-). The above looks
>    fine to me, I just think it is important that we take care of this.
>    
> My impression was that you wanted to do something like:
> 
> 	sgl = kmalloc();
> 	init_sg(sgl, nents);
> 
> 	for_each_ent() {
> 		... existing code ..
> 	}
> 
> If what you really meant was semantically identicaly to what I have
> proposed, I'm completely in agreement with it.  Please submit patches.

Yep, init_sg_entry is probably a better name... I'll hack up and submit
soonish.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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