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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Cc: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Greg Ungerer" <gerg@snapgear.com>,
	"Russell King" <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	"Paul Mundt" <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	"Tim Bird" <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
	bryan.wu@analog.com
Subject: Re: early_printk accessing __log_buf
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:30:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070724143004.6325a511.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707241612.56509.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:12:56 -0400
Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> wrote:

> On Tue 24 Jul 2007 14:12, Andrew Morton pondered:
> > Oh well, it sounds like we need the super-duper fast version.  Keep it
> > as simple as possible, please.
> 
> What about:
> 
> int log_buf_copy(void *dest, int idx, size_t n);
> 
> starting at index idx - copy n bytes to dest, return the number of bytes 
> copied (in case there are not n bytes in the log_buf yet).

Sounds sensible.  I'd make it return size_t and take a char* arg though.
Or just use `int' - size_t is a bit of a pain and this is all kernel-internal
anwyay.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-24 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-18 21:56 early_printk accessing __log_buf Robin Getz
2007-07-18 22:16 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-18 23:39   ` Robin Getz
2007-07-18 23:53     ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-19  3:37       ` Robin Getz
2007-07-19  3:47         ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-19  0:26     ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-19  2:26       ` Stephane Couture
2007-07-19  3:58       ` Robin Getz
2007-07-22 23:50         ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-23  0:14           ` Paul Mundt
2007-07-23 18:19           ` Robin Getz
2007-07-23 20:15             ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-23 20:54               ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-23 21:05                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-23 22:10                   ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-23 22:15               ` Robin Getz
2007-07-23 22:34                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-24 17:50                   ` Robin Getz
2007-07-24 18:12                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-24 20:12                       ` Robin Getz
2007-07-24 21:30                         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-07-31  7:47                           ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-31  7:59                             ` Bryan Wu
2007-07-31  8:11                               ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-31 18:36                             ` Andrew Morton

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