hi,
I am a kernel newbie trying to understand the Scatterlist CryptoAPI
which comes with
the kernel (2.6.11.8) and i ran into some unknowns, can someone
enlighten me on this.
1.Why use scatterlist instead of a virtual address(buffer) and buffer
length?
2.What are the precautions that i should take when the buffer spans
multiple pages?
(should i find the no of pages to which the buffer extends and preapare
a scatterlist struct for each page)
thanks
allen
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