From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
To: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: number of elements or bytes for kfifo_in etc
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:35:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282149358.5103.5.camel@wall-e.seibold.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282109365.2744.1549.camel@yhuang-dev>
Am Mittwoch, den 18.08.2010, 13:29 +0800 schrieb Huang Ying:
> Hi, Stefani,
>
> In new kfifo implementation in 2.6.36-rc1, description of the third
> parameter is:
>
> "@n: number of elements to be added"
>
> But if my understanding is correct, the actual implementation is:
>
> "@n: number of bytes to be added"
>
Number of bytes is wrong, this is only valid for byte stream fifo's
where an element is a byte.
Have a look at samples/kfifo/inttype-example.c where an element is a int
type.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-18 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-18 5:29 Huang Ying
2010-08-18 16:35 ` Stefani Seibold [this message]
2010-08-19 0:32 ` Huang Ying
2010-08-19 1:15 ` Huang Ying
2010-08-19 6:52 ` Stefani Seibold
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