Benny Halevy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was trying to say that the methods should be compatible, otherwise > bugs can happen, and that your scheme is better since it can > handle sglists with zero length entries that aren't the last. > A case that might be valid after dma mapping and merging. > If indeed this case is possible, this seems to be the right time > to converge to your scheme.
Well right now this isn't possible because the crypto layer is not directly hooked to any DMA code since it's (mostly) software only. However, I completely agree that it should be converted to this new scheme. The only user of chaining right now is crypto/hmac.c so it should be easy to fix. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
