Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Aug 2004 14:36:56 -0400 | From | Jean-Luc Cooke <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] |
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OK then,
I tried. scretterlists it is... I'm a push over. ;)
JLC
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 11:26:46AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 08:54:27 -0400 > Jean-Luc Cooke <jlcooke@certainkey.com> wrote: > > > If I can avoid scatter-gather for what is effectively just mixing bytes with > > SHA256 > > & AES256 then this would make things very neat and tidy (read: easier for > > peer review) > > Why do you care about scatter gather at all? You need to allocate > a kernel buffer to copy the user bits into _anyways_. Once you > have a kernel buffer, doing a quick onstack one-entry scatter list > is simple. > > If you're trying to use the user buffer directly, sorry we're not > going to add support for that, as Linus explained it's silly. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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