Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwa...@xilinx.com> writes: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwa...@xilinx.com> writes: >> >>> There is a utility helper for dealing with 8 bit fifos. This should be >>> applicable to other integer widths as well. These two patches >>> generalise this FIFO to work for 16, 32 and 64 bit ints. >> >> Can you show us a user for the wider FIFOs? >> > > Hi Markus, > > I have a couple out of tree that are incomplete and a bit out of scope > of this series. Rather not wait and send a complicated series spanning > multiple sub-systrems. I guess I could shop around for an easy lead > example to fix, but does the series stand in its own right?
I don't like infrastructure without an in-tree user. Even if it's "only" a sensible, straightforward generalization of existing infrastructure. Infrastructure without a user tends to rot. Probably not a serious issue in this particular case. The cost of applying a change and maintaining the additional complexity needs to be justified by some gain. Even when the costs are small, like they probably are in this particular case. An in-tree user could probably justify easily.
