Re: [PATCH 6/6] lib/scatterlist: Drop order argument from sgl_free_n_order

[James Bottomley]

On Wed, 2018-03-07 at 12:47 +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>

Firstly, I don't see any justifiable benefit to churning this API, so
why bother? but secondly this:

> We can derive the order from sg->length and so do not need to pass it
> in explicitly.

Is wrong. ÂI can have a length 2 scatterlist that crosses a page
boundary, but I can also have one within a single page, so the order
cannot be deduced from the length.

James