On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 19:04:36 +0200 Robert Jarzmik
wrote:
> Andrew Morton writes:
>
> >> include/linux/scatterlist.h | 5 ++
> >> lib/scatterlist.c | 189
> >>
> >> 2 files changed, 194 insertions(+)
> >
> > It's quite a bit of code for
Andrew Morton writes:
>> include/linux/scatterlist.h | 5 ++
>> lib/scatterlist.c | 189
>>
>> 2 files changed, 194 insertions(+)
>
> It's quite a bit of code for a fairly specialised thing. How ugly
> would it be to put this in a new .c
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015 15:17:13 +0200 Robert Jarzmik
wrote:
> Sometimes a scatter-gather has to be split into several chunks, or sub scatter
> lists. This happens for example if a scatter list will be handled by multiple
> DMA channels, each one filling a part of it.
>
> A concrete example comes w
Sometimes a scatter-gather has to be split into several chunks, or sub scatter
lists. This happens for example if a scatter list will be handled by multiple
DMA channels, each one filling a part of it.
A concrete example comes with the media V4L2 API, where the scatter list is
allocated from users
