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Message-ID: <20091228014141.GE2399@basil.fritz.box>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:41:41 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [0/6] kfifo fixes/improvements
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 04:12:06PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>
> > I am not happy to see you to take over my project. Especial as most of
> > your fixes are part of my new macro based implementation. Have a look at
> > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/69093/
>
> I don't really understand. You spent a lot of time getting the kfifo
> stuff merged, and now you want to merge (quoting from that patch above)
> "a complete reimplementation of the new kfifo API"?
>
> What happened here? Couldn't you have done the reimplementation before
> merging?
I guess the reimplementation came too late (happens sometimes)
And I agree that making kfifos record oriented makes sense.
Still now that the old one is in we have to fix it at least
until there are no users left.
-Andi
--
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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