Re: sg_next() for struct scatterlist is confusing

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:39:40 -0400 (EDT)
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
> >   note how the comment says that the next entry will "usually" be
> > sg+1, "but" not if it's actually a pointer.
> >
> >   however, as i read the code above, sg is *always* incremented before
> > that testing.  is that correct?  am i just misreading something?  or
> > could the comment have been a bit clearer?
>
> If it increments sg and finds a "chain" entry, it will follow it to
> the next sg array instead of just returning it. Which makes sense
> because the chain entry itself isn't a valid entry in the sg list.

yes, i finally twigged on that after a few more minutes.  it, of
course, makes sense, but it sure doesn't match the comment that's at
the top of that file.

rday
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