Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Jun 2023 17:35:22 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Rust scatterlist abstractions |
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On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 05:33:47PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 06:49:06PM +0800, Qingsong Chen wrote: > > Hi All! > > > > This is a version of scatterlist abstractions for Rust drivers. > > > > Scatterlist is used for efficient management of memory buffers, which is > > essential for many kernel-level operations such as Direct Memory Access > > (DMA) transfers and crypto APIs. > > > > This patch should be a good start to introduce the crypto APIs for Rust > > drivers and to develop cipher algorithms in Rust later. > > I thought we were getting rid of the scatter list api for the crypto > drivers, so this shouldn't be needed going forward, right? Why not just > use the direct apis instead?
See https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZH2hgrV6po9dkxi+@gondor.apana.org.au for the details of that (sorry I forgot the link first time...)
greg k-h
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