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| author | Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> | 2013-11-14 14:32:17 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-11-15 09:32:23 +0900 |
| commit | 498d319bb512992ef0784c278fa03679f2f5649d (patch) | |
| tree | 2793b41c3a98b858d24aa833ccc2bfb2f6d60974 /samples | |
| parent | a019e48cfbfb358786326db3dbc1c565b8f14a56 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-498d319bb512992ef0784c278fa03679f2f5649d.tar.gz lwn-498d319bb512992ef0784c278fa03679f2f5649d.zip | |
kfifo API type safety
This patch enhances the type safety for the kfifo API. It is now safe
to put const data into a non const FIFO and the API will now generate a
compiler warning when reading from the fifo where the destination
address is pointing to a const variable.
As a side effect the kfifo_put() does now expect the value of an element
instead a pointer to the element. This was suggested Russell King. It
make the handling of the kfifo_put easier since there is no need to
create a helper variable for getting the address of a pointer or to pass
integers of different sizes.
IMHO the API break is okay, since there are currently only six users of
kfifo_put().
The code is also cleaner by kicking out the "if (0)" expressions.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'samples')
| -rw-r--r-- | samples/kfifo/bytestream-example.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | samples/kfifo/dma-example.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | samples/kfifo/inttype-example.c | 4 |
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/samples/kfifo/bytestream-example.c b/samples/kfifo/bytestream-example.c index cfe40addda76..2fca916d9edf 100644 --- a/samples/kfifo/bytestream-example.c +++ b/samples/kfifo/bytestream-example.c @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static int __init testfunc(void) /* put values into the fifo */ for (i = 0; i != 10; i++) - kfifo_put(&test, &i); + kfifo_put(&test, i); /* show the number of used elements */ printk(KERN_INFO "fifo len: %u\n", kfifo_len(&test)); @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static int __init testfunc(void) kfifo_skip(&test); /* put values into the fifo until is full */ - for (i = 20; kfifo_put(&test, &i); i++) + for (i = 20; kfifo_put(&test, i); i++) ; printk(KERN_INFO "queue len: %u\n", kfifo_len(&test)); diff --git a/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c b/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c index 06473791c08a..aa243db93f01 100644 --- a/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c +++ b/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static int __init example_init(void) kfifo_in(&fifo, "test", 4); for (i = 0; i != 9; i++) - kfifo_put(&fifo, &i); + kfifo_put(&fifo, i); /* kick away first byte */ kfifo_skip(&fifo); diff --git a/samples/kfifo/inttype-example.c b/samples/kfifo/inttype-example.c index 6f8e79e76c9e..8dc3c2e7105a 100644 --- a/samples/kfifo/inttype-example.c +++ b/samples/kfifo/inttype-example.c @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static int __init testfunc(void) /* put values into the fifo */ for (i = 0; i != 10; i++) - kfifo_put(&test, &i); + kfifo_put(&test, i); /* show the number of used elements */ printk(KERN_INFO "fifo len: %u\n", kfifo_len(&test)); @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static int __init testfunc(void) kfifo_skip(&test); /* put values into the fifo until is full */ - for (i = 20; kfifo_put(&test, &i); i++) + for (i = 20; kfifo_put(&test, i); i++) ; printk(KERN_INFO "queue len: %u\n", kfifo_len(&test)); |