linux-kernel - Re: should new kfifo implementation really be exporting that much?

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Date:	Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:37:37 +0100
From:	Tilman Schmidt <t.schmidt@...enixsoftware.de>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: should new kfifo implementation really be exporting that much?

Am 14.03.2010 15:57 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
>   as a short followup, kfifo.h strongly implies that a lot of the
> above shouldn't be exported:
> 
> ...
> /*
>  * __kfifo_in_... internal functions for put date into the fifo
>  * do not call it directly, use kfifo_in_rec() instead
>  */
> ...
> 
>   anyway, you get the idea.  it would seem that a lot of those EXPORTs
> should be removed, no?

If you look at kfifo_in_rec(), it's a static inline void function
defined in kfifo.h and which calls __kfifo_in_generic() or
__kfifo_in_rec(). I don't think you'll be able to make that work
without exporting those functions.

HTH
T.
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