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

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Date:	Fri, 01 May 2009 15:52:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alex.williamson@...com
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

From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...com>
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 16:43:14 -0600

> 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.

Thanks.  I want to apply this to net-2.6 to fix those uninitialed
scatterlist structure issues.
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