[Devel] Re: [RFCv2][PATCH] flexible array implementation

Dave Hansen dave at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jul 21 15:09:05 PDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 15:00 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 
> The interface is dirt simple.  4 functions:
>         alloc_flex_array()
>         free_flex_array()
>         flex_array_put()
>         flex_array_get()
> 
> put() appends an item into the array while get() takes
> indexes and does array-style access.

I need to update this description, but the kerneldoc comments are up to
date.

That reminds me...  People will get somewhat weird behavior if they mix
flex_array_append() and flex_array_put().  Is that OK?  Should
flex_array_put() modify ->nr_elements to point to the element past the
one that was just put()?  Should we perhaps drop the append() function
and the ->nr_elements variable completely?

-- Dave

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