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SubjectRe: new gerneric kfifo API
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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