From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
"Ira W. Snyder" <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: new gerneric kfifo API
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 11:04:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100805090424.GD29966@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100804194617.GA30773@suse.de>
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:46:17PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 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?
I thought they changed the API. But generally to the better.
The newer version seemed ok to me last time I looked.
The older version it replaced had some issues.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-08-04 7:10 ` new gerneric kfifo API Stefani Seibold
2010-08-04 7:16 ` Andrew Morton
2010-08-04 19:46 ` Greg KH
2010-08-04 20:09 ` Stefani Seibold
2010-08-04 20:17 ` Greg KH
2010-08-04 21:52 ` Andrew Morton
2010-08-04 22:02 ` stefani
2010-08-04 23:01 ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-08-05 9:04 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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