linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/7] kfifo: rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... and kfifo_get... into kfifo

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Message-ID: <20090820120310.19332j54j4mf7rry@mail.your-server.de>
Date:	Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:03:10 +0200
From:	stefani@...bold.net
To:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@....com>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] kfifo: rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... and
 kfifo_get... into kfifo_out...


Zitat von David Vrabel <david.vrabel@....com>:

> Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 23:00 +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote:
>>> rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... to prevent miss use of old  
>>> non in kernel-tree drivers
>>> ditto for kfifo_get... -> kfifo_out...
>>
>> I would have thought
>> 	kfifo_put -> kfifo_out
>> 	kfifo_get -> kfifo_in
>> but maybe that's just me.
>
> Use push and pull instead?  In and out (whichever way) isn't obvious enough.
>
> David
>

As i wrote before: FIFO means first in/first out not first  
pushed/first pulled nor first put/first get
It it logical.

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