Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Aug 2010 16:01:48 -0700 | From | "Ira W. Snyder" <> | Subject | Re: new gerneric kfifo API |
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On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:02:46AM +0200, stefani@seibold.net wrote: > > Zitat von Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: > > > On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 13:17:24 -0700 > > Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:09:11PM +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote: > >> > Am Mittwoch, den 04.08.2010, 12:46 -0700 schrieb Greg KH: > >> > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 09:10:54AM +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote: > >> > > > Hi, > >> > > > > >> > > > once again. Kernel 2.6.35 is out and i want to know if there > >> is play plan to > >> > > > merge the generic kfifo API. All complains was fixed, so there is no > >> > > > reason to shift the merge again. Please gibe me a short answer. > >> > > > >> > > These have been in the -mm tree for a few major kernel releases now, > >> > > right? And they are API safe, and only change the internals, right? > >> > > > >> > > If so, I see no objection to merging them now, especially as you will be > >> > > around to fix up any problems that people have, right? :) > >> > > > >> > > >> > right! > >> > >> Great. As Andrew doesn't have the time to send them on, want me to? If > >> so, care to point me at them in his tree, or resend them to me? > >> > > > > One does a little more than "send things on"... > > > > I have a little pile of kfifo changes queud for 2.6.36. The "generic > > kfifo" patches are a large rotorooting of the whole facility, based on > > that work (I hope). > > > > There's also the abandoned > > kfifo-replace-the-old-non-generic-api-kfifo-fix-scatterlist-usage.patch > > which never got resolved with the originator. > > > > > > This patch was included in the latest version i had posted last week. >
Hello Stefani, Andrew,
I've reviewed the updated patch from Stefani which has incorporated the fixes I suggested into the DMA routines. The DMA routines have my ack, though I have not ported any code to them yet.
Thanks, Ira
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