Re: new gerneric kfifo API

[stefani]

Zitat von Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 13:17:24 -0700
> Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:09:11PM +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, den 04.08.2010, 12:46 -0700 schrieb Greg KH:
> > > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 09:10:54AM +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > once again. Kernel 2.6.35 is out and i want to know if there  
> > is play plan to
> > > > > merge the generic kfifo API. All complains was fixed, so there is no
> > > > > reason to shift the merge again. Please gibe me a short answer.
> > > >
> > > > These have been in the -mm tree for a few major kernel releases now,
> > > > right?  And they are API safe, and only change the internals, right?
> > > >
> > > > If so, I see no objection to merging them now, especially as you will be
> > > > around to fix up any problems that people have, right?  :)
> > > >
> > >
> > > right!
> >
> > Great.  As Andrew doesn't have the time to send them on, want me to?  If
> > so, care to point me at them in his tree, or resend them to me?
>
> One does a little more than "send things on"...
>
> I have a little pile of kfifo changes queud for 2.6.36.  The "generic
> kfifo" patches are a large rotorooting of the whole facility, based on
> that work (I hope).
>
> There's also the abandoned
> kfifo-replace-the-old-non-generic-api-kfifo-fix-scatterlist-usage.patch
> which never got resolved with the originator.

This patch was included in the latest version i had posted last week.



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