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Subject[PATCH 00/02] 32-bit PIO wrappers for scatterlists
Hello,

While writing a driver for CB710 MMC host I had to implement PIO routines
that transferred data to/from buffers described by scatterlists. As it
turned later this scheme is needed for similar devices that can't handle
[scatter-gather] DMA in hardware.

Following is my implementation of such routines that should be generic
enough to use in drivers doing PIO by 32-bit accesses (PCI based devices
or maybe other 32-bit word based busses).

Current implementation has some limitations:
1. it advances scatterlist iterator always by multiple of 4 bytes
2. it silently inserts zeroes after last byte of buffer when transferring
data to the device (that's actually a good thing for my driver)
3. it silently ignores data that does not fit into specified buffer when
transferring data from the device (this also is a good thing for the
driver I wrote)

What those points mean is that driver writer has to know how many bytes
there are available in the buffer if its important, and has to use
multiple-of-4 transfer sizes when doing more than one transfer using
a single iterator.

Patches are against vanilla kernel 2.6.28.

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław
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