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

[Stefani Seibold]

Am Mittwoch, den 30.12.2009, 02:43 -0800 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:29:50AM +0100, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> >
> I do not need to try the new behavior - you explained it quite well.
> You changed the old API to allow processing multiple records at a time
> and it does not quite work the way you want with Andi's patch. Now the

Wrong, i did not change the behavior of the old API. It is exactly the
same at is was!!!!

> question is: when working with _records_ does anyone really want to
> put/get more than 1 record at a time? My answer would be "no, most users

Your answer is wrong. All current user depend on it, because it
(miss)use a byte stream to store values other than bytes to it.
 
> work with 1 record at a time". Thus your changes to the old API are not
> needed.
> 

A lot of hot air... Better you check the code before complain.

Stefani


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