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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
	Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] lib/scatterlist: introduce sg_pcopy_from_buffer() and sg_pcopy_to_buffer()
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:37:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130618143728.GE2767@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371562294-13642-3-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:31:32PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
>  /**
> + * sg_miter_seek - reposition mapping iterator
> + * @miter: sg mapping iter to be seeked
> + * @offset: number of bytes to plus the current location
> + *
> + * Description:
> + *   Sets the offset of @miter to its current location plus @offset bytes.
> + *
> + * Notes:
> + *   This function must be called just after sg_miter_start() or sg_miter_stop()

It's not gonna be hard to make this function to handle any state,
right?  Wouldn't it be better to do that?  It's a pretty generic
feature after all.  Also, maybe a better name is sg_miter_skip()?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-18 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-18 13:31 [PATCH v2 0/4] introduce sg_pcopy_from_buffer() and sg_pcopy_to_buffer() Akinobu Mita
2013-06-18 13:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] lib/scatterlist: factor out sg_miter_get_next_page() from sg_miter_next() Akinobu Mita
2013-06-18 14:35   ` Tejun Heo
2013-06-18 13:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] lib/scatterlist: introduce sg_pcopy_from_buffer() and sg_pcopy_to_buffer() Akinobu Mita
2013-06-18 14:37   ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2013-06-19 13:12     ` Akinobu Mita
2013-06-18 13:31 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] crypto: talitos: use sg_pcopy_to_buffer() Akinobu Mita
2013-06-18 13:31 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] scsi_debug: fix do_device_access() with wrap around range Akinobu Mita

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