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scatterlist-new-helper-functions-fix
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scatterlist-new-helper-functions-fix.patch
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Subject: scatterlist-new-helper-functions-fix
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
fix general disaster in code comments
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/scatterlist.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff -puN lib/scatterlist.c~scatterlist-new-helper-functions-fix lib/scatterlist.c
--- a/lib/scatterlist.c~scatterlist-new-helper-functions-fix
+++ a/lib/scatterlist.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_next);
/**
* sg_advance - advance scatterlist by 'consumed' bytes
* @sg - the current sg entry
- * @consumed - how much bytes to advance
+ * @consumed - how many bytes to advance
*
*/
struct scatterlist *sg_advance(struct scatterlist *sg, int consumed)
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_advance);
* sg_nents - calculate number of sg entries in sg list
* @sg - the current sg entry
*
- * Allows to calculate dynamicly the lenght of the sg table, based on
- * assumption that last entry is NULL
+ * Allows to calculate aldynamicly the length of the sg table, based on an
+ * assumption that the last entry is NULL
*/
int sg_nents(struct scatterlist *sg)
{
@@ -92,11 +92,11 @@ int sg_nents(struct scatterlist *sg)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_nents);
/**
- * sg_total_len - calculate total lenght of scatterlist
+ * sg_total_len - calculate total length of scatterlist
* @sg - the current sg entry
*
- * Dynamicly calculate total number of bytes in a sg list
- * based on assumption that list ends with a NULL entry
+ * Dynamically calculate total number of bytes in a sg list
+ * based on an assumption that the list ends with a NULL entry
*/
int sg_total_len(struct scatterlist *sg)
{
@@ -182,8 +182,14 @@ void sg_init_one(struct scatterlist *sg,
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_init_one);
/**
- * sg_copy - copies sg entries from sg_from to sg_to, such
- * as sg_to covers first 'len' bytes from sg_from.
+ * sg_copy - copy sg entries
+ * @sg_from: source
+ * @sg_to: destination
+ *
+ * Copies from @sg_from to @sg_to. @sg_to covers first 'len' bytes from
+ * @sg_from.
+ *
+ * Returns zero on success, else a -ve errno.
*/
int sg_copy(struct scatterlist *sg_from, struct scatterlist *sg_to, int len)
{
@@ -616,13 +622,12 @@ size_t sg_copy_to_buffer(struct scatterl
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_copy_to_buffer);
-
/**
- * sg_compare_to_buffer - compare contents of the data pointeted by sg table
+ * sg_compare_to_buffer - compare contents of the data covered by an sg table
* to a kernel ram buffer
- * @sg - the current sg entry
- * @buffer - linear buffer to compare with
- * @len - lenght of that buffer
+ * @sg: the current sg entry
+ * @buffer: linear buffer to compare with
+ * @len: length of that buffer
*/
bool sg_compare_to_buffer(struct scatterlist *sg, u8 *buffer, size_t len)
{
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