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From: Tilman Schmidt <t.schmidt@phoenixsoftware.de>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: should new kfifo implementation really be exporting that much?
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:37:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B9D10D1.1060602@phoenixsoftware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003141053380.5987@localhost>

Am 14.03.2010 15:57 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
>   as a short followup, kfifo.h strongly implies that a lot of the
> above shouldn't be exported:
> 
> ...
> /*
>  * __kfifo_in_... internal functions for put date into the fifo
>  * do not call it directly, use kfifo_in_rec() instead
>  */
> ...
> 
>   anyway, you get the idea.  it would seem that a lot of those EXPORTs
> should be removed, no?

If you look at kfifo_in_rec(), it's a static inline void function
defined in kfifo.h and which calls __kfifo_in_generic() or
__kfifo_in_rec(). I don't think you'll be able to make that work
without exporting those functions.

HTH
T.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-14 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-14 13:32 should new kfifo implementation really be exporting that much? Robert P. J. Day
2010-03-14 14:57 ` Robert P. J. Day
2010-03-14 16:37   ` Tilman Schmidt [this message]
2010-03-14 16:49     ` Robert P. J. Day
2010-03-21  9:32       ` Jon Masters
2010-03-22 14:32         ` Robert P. J. Day

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