From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760029Ab0HEJEb (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2010 05:04:31 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:45786 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758886Ab0HEJE3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2010 05:04:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 11:04:24 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Greg KH Cc: Stefani Seibold , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Ira W. Snyder" , Andi Kleen , Alan Cox , tytso@mit.edu Subject: Re: new gerneric kfifo API Message-ID: <20100805090424.GD29966@basil.fritz.box> References: <201005132135.o4DLZ9WI021613@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <1280905854.8441.3.camel@wall-e.seibold.net> <20100804194617.GA30773@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100804194617.GA30773@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.