Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/7] kfifo: rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... and kfifo_get... into kfifo_out... | From | Stefani Seibold <> | Date | Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:08:27 +0200 |
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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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