From 498d319bb512992ef0784c278fa03679f2f5649d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefani Seibold Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 14:32:17 -0800 Subject: 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 Cc: Russell King Cc: Hauke Mehrtens Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- samples/kfifo/bytestream-example.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'samples/kfifo/bytestream-example.c') 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)); -- cgit v1.2.3