Pierre Ossman wrote: >> Well, I don't know how often such usages would be necessary. If it's a >> very common ops, you can add a param to the next function but frankly I >> think it's better to build a inside control structure for that. There's >> no need for external buffer, just an inner loop is sufficient. >> > > I'm not sure how this can be solved by an inner loop. My primary use > case is: > > 1. Wait for interrupt > 2. Write n bytes > 3. goto 1 > > n has no guarantee of being aligned to any page boundaries, so state > needs to be kept between each invokation of writing a chunk of data. I > doubt I'm alone in this use pattern (in fact, most device drivers using > PIO should do something similar). Oh... I see. How about adding sg_miter_consume(@miter, @bytes)? If the function is never called, the whole chunk is assumed to be consumed. If the function is called only @bytes are consumed. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
