netdev - Re: [MeeGo-Dev][PATCH] Topcliff: Update PCH

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Date:	Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:59:17 +0200
From:	Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>
To:	Masayuki Ohtake <masa-korg@....okisemi.com>
CC:	"Wang, Qi" <qi.wang@...el.com>, arjan@...ux.intel.com,
	meego-dev@...go.com, "Wang, Yong Y" <yong.y.wang@...el.com>,
	gregkh@...e.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	socketcan-core@...ts.berlios.de,
	"Khor, Andrew Chih Howe" <andrew.chih.howe.khor@...el.com>,
	Morinaga <morinaga526@....okisemi.com>
Subject: Re: [MeeGo-Dev][PATCH] Topcliff: Update PCH_CAN driver to 2.6.35

Hi Ohtake,

On 08/20/2010 08:01 AM, Masayuki Ohtake wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
>>>>>> 2. Why don't you use kernel existing kfifo infrastructure? ([2]).
>>>>> Just take a look at kfifo.h. This structure has been changed. I remembered
>>>> there was a spin_lock from kfifo previously. Currently it's been removed, good.
>>>>> OKI-sans, would you please take a look at ./include/linux/kfifo.h, and try to
>>>> use this structure and APIs?
>>>>
>>>> As I see it, the code related to that fifo is not used (== dead code)?
>>> I'm not familiar with kfifo structure, and I didn't like it because there need a spin_lock to use it.
> 
> We are about to study kfifo infra structure.
> I have a question.
> 
> It seems all CAN drivers accepted by upstream don't use kfifo infrastructure, right ?

Right!

> (I couldn't see message with "grep kfifo * in drivers/net/can")
> 
> If yes, why should we use the kfifo ?
> If no, please show me the kfifo reference driver

Sorry, nobody (of the socketcan core developers) said that kfifo should
be used. We believe, that an additional queuing of CAN messages is *not*
needed at all. Just eliminate the related code and follow more closely
the existing mainline drivers.

Wolfgang.
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