Re: number of elements or bytes for kfifo_in etc

From: Stefani Seibold
Date: Wed Aug 18 2010 - 12:36:04 EST


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.



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