netdev - Re: [PATCH]: Fix networking scatterlist regressions.

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Message-Id: <200710311706.33142.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:06:32 +1100
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	jens.axboe@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Fix networking scatterlist regressions.

On Wednesday 31 October 2007 14:40:02 David Miller wrote:
> I just checked the following bug fix into net-2.6
>
> Rusty, have a quick look at virtio_net wrt. the changes I
> made to skb_to_sgvec()'s behavior.  I think I might have
> even fixed something :-)

Grr, the scatterlist changes are really pissing me off.  We get ugly tricky 
code *and* transition pain.

I hate to suggest this, but I don't supposed there's a chance we can revert it 
for 2.6.24 and do something cleaner for 2.6.25?

Rusty.
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