Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/3] lib/scatterlist: Add support to clone sg_table

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Jun 22 2016 - 11:18:19 EST


On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 05:45:11PM -0500, Franklin S Cooper Jr wrote:
> Occasionally there are times you need to tweak a S/G table while
> maintaining the original table. This function will duplicate the passed
> in S/G table along with its chained sgl and return a pointer to the cloned
> copy.

You ought to send this to whoever looks after the scatterlist code as
well, or at least a wider circulation. Unfortunately that doesn't look
100% clear... off the top of my head Jens Axboe and Andrew Morton look
like good candidates.

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