Re: [PATCH] [0/6] kfifo fixes/improvements

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Tue Dec 29 2009 - 21:08:44 EST


A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post
Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:18:50PM -0500, Vikram Dhillon wrote:
> IMHO you can process elements rather than bytes, which is a good
> improvement, but then again its my opinion, if others don't like it
> then we can always change it :D

Right, I was not arguing against having a record-oriented interface, I
was questioning the utility of processing several records at a time.
Kfifo users that I have seen so far were working in a record-at-a-time
mode.

Thanks.

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Dmitry
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