From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] kfifo: rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... and kfifo_get... into kfifo_out...
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:08:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1250716107.13476.22.camel@wall-e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250715819.3407.88.camel@Joe-Laptop.home>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-19 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-19 20:49 [PATCH 0/7] kfifo: new API v0.5 Stefani Seibold
2009-08-19 20:51 ` [PATCH 1/7] kfifo: move struct kfifo in place Stefani Seibold
2009-08-19 20:53 ` [PATCH 2/7] kfifo: move out spinlock Stefani Seibold
2009-08-19 20:55 ` [PATCH 3/7] kfifo: cleanup namespace Stefani Seibold
2009-08-19 21:00 ` [PATCH 4/7] kfifo: rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... and kfifo_get... into kfifo_out Stefani Seibold
2009-08-19 21:03 ` Joe Perches
2009-08-19 21:08 ` Stefani Seibold [this message]
2009-08-20 9:58 ` David Vrabel
2009-08-20 10:03 ` stefani
2009-08-20 11:28 ` David Vrabel
2009-08-20 16:11 ` Andi Kleen
2009-08-19 21:03 ` [PATCH 5/7] kfifo: add DEFINE_KFIFO and friends, add very tiny functions Stefani Seibold
2009-08-19 21:04 ` [PATCH 6/7] kfifo: add kfifo_skip, kfifo_from_user and kfifo_to_user Stefani Seibold
2009-08-19 21:06 ` [PATCH 7/7] kfifo: add record handling functions Stefani Seibold
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-20 8:15 [PATCH 0/7] kfifo: new API v0.7 Stefani Seibold
2009-11-20 8:25 ` [PATCH 4/7] kfifo: rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... and kfifo_get... into kfifo_out Stefani Seibold
2009-11-16 11:50 [PATCH 0/7] kfifo: new API v0.6 Stefani Seibold
2009-11-16 12:03 ` [PATCH 4/7] kfifo: rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... and kfifo_get... into kfifo_out Stefani Seibold
2009-08-16 20:39 [PATCH 0/7] kfifo: new API v0.4 Stefani Seibold
2009-08-16 20:53 ` [PATCH 4/7] kfifo: rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... and kfifo_get... into kfifo_out Stefani Seibold
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