Re: [PATCH] enhanced reimplemented of the kfifo API

[Stefani Seibold]

> I'm glad to see this example, it really illustrates how to use the new
> DMA functionality of the kfifo API.
> 
> Is there any reason why a very large scatterlist could not be used? I
> have a driver that uses a large scatterlist (~4000 entries, allocated as
> a struct sg_table). I implemented my own copy_from_user() functionality
> into this scatterlist, but I'd love to use the kfifo DMA API instead.
> After filling the scatterlist, I use the usual DMA API's to transfer it
> to my device.
> 

No, but the API will only return max. two entries.

Stefani


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