Re: should new kfifo implementation really be exporting that much?

From: Tilman Schmidt
Date: Sun Mar 14 2010 - 13:02:54 EST


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.
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