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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/7] kfifo: rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... and kfifo_get... into kfifo_out...
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Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 14:03 -0700 schrieb Joe Perches:
> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 23:00 +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> > rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... to prevent miss use of old non in kernel-tree drivers
> > ditto for kfifo_get... -> kfifo_out...
>
> I would have thought
> kfifo_put -> kfifo_out
> kfifo_get -> kfifo_in
> but maybe that's just me.
>

FIFO -> first in, first out

so a put is logical an "in" into the FIFO, and a get is logical an "out"
into the FIFO.




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