Re: number of elements or bytes for kfifo_in etc

From: Huang Ying
Date: Wed Aug 18 2010 - 20:32:43 EST


Hi, Stefani,

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 00:35 +0800, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 18.08.2010, 13:29 +0800 schrieb Huang Ying:
> > Hi, Stefani,
> >
> > In new kfifo implementation in 2.6.36-rc1, description of the third
> > parameter is:
> >
> > "@n: number of elements to be added"
> >
> > But if my understanding is correct, the actual implementation is:
> >
> > "@n: number of bytes to be added"
> >
>
> Number of bytes is wrong, this is only valid for byte stream fifo's
> where an element is a byte.
>
> Have a look at samples/kfifo/inttype-example.c where an element is a int
> type.

Yes. You are right. I misunderstood your code. Sorry for bothering.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying


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