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/dma-example.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'samples/kfifo/dma-example.c') diff --git a/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c b/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c index 06473791c08..aa243db93f0 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); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2