Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761674AbXLUMOR (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:14:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758149AbXLUMNX (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:13:23 -0500 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:4513 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756448AbXLUMNW (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:13:22 -0500 From: Herbert Xu To: rusty@rustcorp.com.au (Rusty Russell) Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] sg_ring for scsi Cc: davem@davemloft.net, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com, dougg@torque.net Organization: Core In-Reply-To: <200712211013.38511.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> X-Newsgroups: apana.lists.os.linux.kernel,apana.lists.os.linux.scsi User-Agent: tin/1.7.4-20040225 ("Benbecula") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.17-rc4 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:13:07 +0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 722 Lines: 19 Rusty Russell wrote: > > 2) It allows others to manipulate sg chains, which couldn't be done before > (eg. the ATA code which wants to append a padding element). Yes chaining at the end is very useful for the crypto layer as well. Thanks, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/