Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] lib/scatterlist: introduce sg_pcopy_from_buffer()and sg_pcopy_to_buffer()

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Jun 18 2013 - 10:37:37 EST


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:31:32PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> /**
> + * sg_miter_seek - reposition mapping iterator
> + * @miter: sg mapping iter to be seeked
> + * @offset: number of bytes to plus the current location
> + *
> + * Description:
> + * Sets the offset of @miter to its current location plus @offset bytes.
> + *
> + * Notes:
> + * This function must be called just after sg_miter_start() or sg_miter_stop()

It's not gonna be hard to make this function to handle any state,
right? Wouldn't it be better to do that? It's a pretty generic
feature after all. Also, maybe a better name is sg_miter_skip()?

Thanks.

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tejun
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