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Message-Id: <E1HmhQy-0003lu-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 12:34:12 +1000
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: bhalevy@...asas.com (Benny Halevy)
Cc: jens.axboe@...cle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/12] crypto: don't pollute the global namespace with sg_next()
Benny Halevy <bhalevy@...asas.com> wrote:
>
> I was trying to say that the methods should be compatible, otherwise
> bugs can happen, and that your scheme is better since it can
> handle sglists with zero length entries that aren't the last.
> A case that might be valid after dma mapping and merging.
> If indeed this case is possible, this seems to be the right time
> to converge to your scheme.
Well right now this isn't possible because the crypto layer is not
directly hooked to any DMA code since it's (mostly) software only.
However, I completely agree that it should be converted to this new
scheme. The only user of chaining right now is crypto/hmac.c so it
should be easy to fix.
Cheers,
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