From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
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: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:32:30 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282177950.2744.1587.camel@yhuang-dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282149358.5103.5.camel@wall-e.seibold.net>
Hi, Stefani,
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 00:35 +0800, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> 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.
Yes. You are right. I misunderstood your code. Sorry for bothering.
Best Regards,
Huang Ying
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-19 0:32 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
2010-08-19 0:32 ` Huang Ying [this message]
2010-08-19 1:15 ` Huang Ying
2010-08-19 6:52 ` Stefani Seibold
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