On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 15:33 -0700, David Miller wrote:

From: Alex Williamson <redacted>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:50:03 -0600

quoted

We were avoiding calling sg_init* on scatterlists passed
into virtnet_send_command to prevent extraneous end markers.
This caused build warnings for uninitialized variables.
Cleanup the code to create proper scatterlists.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <redacted>

This patch does not apply even to Linus's current tree.

It was against net-next-2.6.git, I'll update it for linux-2.6.git.
IIRC, it applied with some fuzz.

Alex