Re: [PATCH] ixp4xx_crypto panic with fragmented packets inscatterlist

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Feb 26 2009 - 07:11:08 EST


Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We can't merge this until _all_ of ARM has been fixed for walking
> scatterlist chains.

Right, this is definitely not the way to fix this bug. Because
even if ARM completely supported chaining, you still have to fix
all the other architectures as well.

So please just fix the driver to remove the chaining before doing
DMA.

Thanks,
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