From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: stefani@seibold.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, randy.dunlap@oracle.com,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix kfifo_alloc() to return a signed int value
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:16:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101020141648.c170e3e8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287605544-21270-1-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net>
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:12:23 +0200
stefani@seibold.net wrote:
> This patch adds a new __kfifo_int_must_check_helper() helper function,
> which is needed for kfifo_alloc() to return the right signed integer
> value.
>
> The origin __kfifo_must_check_helper() helper was renamed into
> __kfifo_uint_must_check_helper() to show the sign which is expected and
> returned.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
> ---
> include/linux/kfifo.h | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
We're probably just days away from 2.6.36. I went with the
safe-and-stupid fix. I'll queue this patch for 2.6.37-rc1.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-20 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-20 20:12 [PATCH] Fix kfifo_alloc() to return a signed int value stefani
2010-10-20 20:12 ` stefani
2010-10-20 20:26 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-10-20 21:16 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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