netdev - Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: Cleanup command queue scatterlist usage

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Message-Id: <1241217794.9646.588.camel@2710p.home>
Date:	Fri, 01 May 2009 16:43:14 -0600
From:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: Cleanup command queue scatterlist usage

On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 15:33 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...com>
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:50:03 -0600
> 
> > We were avoiding calling sg_init* on scatterlists passed
> > into virtnet_send_command to prevent extraneous end markers.
> > This caused build warnings for uninitialized variables.
> > Cleanup the code to create proper scatterlists.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...com>
> 
> This patch does not apply even to Linus's current tree.

It was against net-next-2.6.git, I'll update it for linux-2.6.git.
IIRC, it applied with some fuzz.

Alex

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