linux-kernel - Re: new gerneric kfifo API

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Message-ID: <20100804230147.GI23951@ovro.caltech.edu>
Date:	Wed, 4 Aug 2010 16:01:48 -0700
From:	"Ira W. Snyder" <iws@...o.caltech.edu>
To:	stefani@...bold.net
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: new gerneric kfifo API

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:02:46AM +0200, stefani@...bold.net wrote:
> 
> Zitat von Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>:
> 
> > On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 13:17:24 -0700
> > Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:09:11PM +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> >> > Am Mittwoch, den 04.08.2010, 12:46 -0700 schrieb Greg KH:
> >> > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 09:10:54AM +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> >> > > > Hi,
> >> > > >
> >> > > > once again. Kernel 2.6.35 is out and i want to know if there  
> >> is play plan to
> >> > > > merge the generic kfifo API. All complains was fixed, so there is no
> >> > > > reason to shift the merge again. Please gibe me a short answer.
> >> > >
> >> > > These have been in the -mm tree for a few major kernel releases now,
> >> > > right?  And they are API safe, and only change the internals, right?
> >> > >
> >> > > If so, I see no objection to merging them now, especially as you will be
> >> > > around to fix up any problems that people have, right?  :)
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > right!
> >>
> >> Great.  As Andrew doesn't have the time to send them on, want me to?  If
> >> so, care to point me at them in his tree, or resend them to me?
> >>
> >
> > One does a little more than "send things on"...
> >
> > I have a little pile of kfifo changes queud for 2.6.36.  The "generic
> > kfifo" patches are a large rotorooting of the whole facility, based on
> > that work (I hope).
> >
> > There's also the abandoned
> > kfifo-replace-the-old-non-generic-api-kfifo-fix-scatterlist-usage.patch
> > which never got resolved with the originator.
> >
> >
> 
> This patch was included in the latest version i had posted last week.
> 

Hello Stefani, Andrew,

I've reviewed the updated patch from Stefani which has incorporated the
fixes I suggested into the DMA routines. The DMA routines have my ack,
though I have not ported any code to them yet.

Thanks,
Ira
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