kernel · 5dab600e6a153ceb64832f608069e6c08185411a · Kirill Smelkov / linux

kfifo: document everywhere that size has to be power of two

Andi Kleen authored 15 years ago


On my first try using them I missed that the fifos need to be power of
two, resulting in a runtime bug.  Document that requirement everywhere
(and fix one grammar bug)
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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