Re: [PATCH 0/5] sg_ring for scsi

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Dec 21 2007 - 07:14:18 EST


Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 2) It allows others to manipulate sg chains, which couldn't be done before
> (eg. the ATA code which wants to append a padding element).

Yes chaining at the end is very useful for the crypto layer as
well.

Thanks,
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