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These are helpers which are going to be used in the serial layer. We need a wrapper around kfifo which provides us with a tail (sometimes "tail" offset, sometimes a pointer) to the kfifo data. And which returns count of available data -- but not larger than to the end of the buffer (hence _linear in the names). I.e. something like CIRC_CNT_TO_END() in the legacy circ_buf. This patch adds such two helpers. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@kernel.org> Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240405060826.2521-4-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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