Re: [PATCH]

[Jean-Luc Cooke]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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