On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
On Tue, Oct 23 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
My biggest complaint right now is that a lot of users of the sg *filling*
functions were mindlessly converted, so we have code like
cryptoloop.c: sg_set_page(&sg_in, in_page);
cryptoloop.c: sg_in.offset = in_offs;
cryptoloop.c: sg_in.length = sz;
which is just really stupid, and we should have a function for that. But
worse is code like this:
ub.c: sg_set_page(sg, virt_to_page(sc->top_sense));
ub.c: sg->offset = (unsigned long)sc->top_sense & (PAGE_SIZE-1);
ub.c: sg->length = UB_SENSE_SIZE;
which again was converted "line by line" and we actually *do* have a
function to do the above three lines as
sg_set_buf(sg, sc->top_sense, UB_SENSE_SIZE);
where that *single* line is just tons shorter but more importantly, more
readable, than the mess that is a brute-force conversion.
I modified sg_set_page() to take a length and offset argument, and
As it no longer sets the page only, perhaps it's a good idea to rename
sg_set_page() to sg_set()?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
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