On Wed, 2018-03-07 at 12:47 +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote: > From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx> Firstly, I don't see any justifiable benefit to churning this API, so why bother? but secondly this: > We can derive the order from sg->length and so do not need to pass it > in explicitly. Is wrong. I can have a length 2 scatterlist that crosses a page boundary, but I can also have one within a single page, so the order cannot be deduced from the length. James