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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 5/8] lib: introduce sg_nents_len_chained
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 05:25:47PM -0400, Tony Battersby wrote:
>
> So instead of adding a new function sg_nents_len_chained(), a better
> cleanup would be:
> 1) replace the driver-specific functions with calls to sg_nents_for_len()
> 2) get rid of the "chained" variables
> 3) always call dma_map_sg()/dma_unmap_sg() for the entire scatterlist
> regardless of whether or not the scatterlist is chained
>
> Would someone more familiar with the crypto API please confirm that my
> suggestions are correct?

Yes I think you're absolutely right Tony. Corentin, could you
please take this opportunity to clean up those drivers so that
they simply use dma_map_sg a single time rather than over and
over again for chained SG lists?

You only have to redo patches 5-8.

Thanks,
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