Re: [PATCH 0/7] new kfifo API

From: Amerigo Wang
Date: Wed Aug 12 2009 - 23:06:55 EST


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:31:13AM +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote:
>This is a proposal of a new generic kernel FIFO implementation.
>The patch is splitted into 7 parts:
> Part 1: Code reorganization, no functional change
> Part 2: Move out spinlock
> Part 3: Cleanup namespace
> Part 4: rename kfifo_put... -> kfifo_in... and kfifo_get... -> kfifo_out...
> Part 5: add DEFINE_KFIFO and friends, add very tiny functions
> Part 6: add kfifo_from_user and kfifo_to_user
> Part 7: add record handling functions (does some reorg)

Hi, Stefani

Can you put these patches into one thread? I have to search my
inbox to find all of them. :)

And, personally I don't like your splitting of these patches,
I prefer to see kfifo API changes first, then their usages.

Anyway, nice work! Thanks!
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