From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [0/6] kfifo fixes/improvements
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:41:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091228014141.GE2399@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adahbrcyn1l.fsf@roland-alpha.cisco.com>
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 04:12:06PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>
> > I am not happy to see you to take over my project. Especial as most of
> > your fixes are part of my new macro based implementation. Have a look at
> > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/69093/
>
> I don't really understand. You spent a lot of time getting the kfifo
> stuff merged, and now you want to merge (quoting from that patch above)
> "a complete reimplementation of the new kfifo API"?
>
> What happened here? Couldn't you have done the reimplementation before
> merging?
I guess the reimplementation came too late (happens sometimes)
And I agree that making kfifos record oriented makes sense.
Still now that the old one is in we have to fix it at least
until there are no users left.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-28 1:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-27 21:03 [PATCH] [0/6] kfifo fixes/improvements Andi Kleen
2009-12-27 21:03 ` [PATCH] [1/6] kfifo: Use void * pointers for user buffers Andi Kleen
2009-12-27 21:48 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 21:03 ` [PATCH] [2/6] kfifo: Make kfifo_in atomic Andi Kleen
2009-12-27 21:46 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 21:03 ` [PATCH] [3/6] kfifo: Sanitize *_user error handling Andi Kleen
2009-12-27 21:38 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 23:34 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-28 7:10 ` Stefani Seibold
2010-01-04 22:33 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 21:03 ` [PATCH] [4/6] kfifo: add kfifo_out_peek Andi Kleen
2009-12-27 21:49 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 23:41 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-28 7:09 ` Stefani Seibold
2010-01-04 21:57 ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-04 22:24 ` Alan Cox
2010-01-04 22:47 ` Stefani Seibold
2010-01-05 0:14 ` Alan Cox
2009-12-27 21:03 ` [PATCH] [5/6] kfifo: Add kfifo_initialized Andi Kleen
2009-12-27 21:53 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 21:03 ` [PATCH] [6/6] kfifo: Document everywhere that size has to be power of two Andi Kleen
2009-12-27 21:50 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 22:14 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-27 22:23 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 23:34 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-27 21:36 ` [PATCH] [0/6] kfifo fixes/improvements Stefani Seibold
2009-12-27 23:38 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-28 6:49 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-28 7:42 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-28 14:57 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-28 16:08 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-28 17:26 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-28 20:04 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-28 20:40 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-29 8:40 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-29 22:27 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-30 1:18 ` Vikram Dhillon
2009-12-30 2:08 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-30 9:29 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-30 10:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-30 10:52 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-30 11:07 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-30 11:32 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-30 17:29 ` Andy Walls
2009-12-31 7:35 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-31 8:59 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-31 9:33 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-31 18:03 ` Andy Walls
2009-12-30 17:15 ` Andy Walls
2009-12-28 0:12 ` Roland Dreier
2009-12-28 1:41 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-12-28 7:06 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-12-28 14:56 ` Andi Kleen
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