Re: new gerneric kfifo API

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Aug 05 2010 - 05:04:34 EST


On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:46:17PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

I thought they changed the API. But generally to the better.

The newer version seemed ok to me last time I looked.
The older version it replaced had some issues.

-Andi
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