On Tue, Dec 04 2007, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:31:40PM +0100, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > Hi Herbert,
> >
> > commit 788fefa33b0b50581585925c53c230a36af35d0e in cryptodev breaks hmac
> > on s390 du to the usage of sg_chain():
> >
> > static inline void sg_chain(struct scatterlist *prv, unsigned int prv_nents,
> > struct scatterlist *sgl)
> > {
> > #ifndef ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
> > BUG();
> > #endif
> >
> > ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN is false for s390 (and also for some other arch's).
> >
> > What should we do with this?
>
> Looks like we took a step backwards because the chaining I had
> before worked on all architectures :)
>
> I suppose either we'll have to do our own chaining again or implement
> it for all architectures. I'll look into this.
You should continue to do your own chaining if it's a requirement for
the driver/layer to function, until we get rid of ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN.
That'll happen when all archs are converted.
So don't rely on scatterlist helping you with chaining just yet, sorry.
--
Jens Axboe
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