From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)
Cc: Michael Zhu <mylinuxk@yahoo.ca>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The CURRENT macro
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:55:10 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020103195509.C26824@conectiva.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020103213455.34699.qmail@web14911.mail.yahoo.com> <20020103214839.9953.qmail@eklektix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020103214839.9953.qmail@eklektix.com>
Em Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:48:39PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet escreveu:
> > In Alessandro Rubini's book Linux Device Driver(Second
> > Edition), Chatper 12
> Alessandro and...um...some other guy...:)
Yes, I know that other guy, very nice guy indeed 8)
> > he said that "By accessing the
> > fields in the request structure, usually by way of
> > CURRENT" and "CURRENT is just a pointer into
> > blk_dev[MAJOR_NR].request_queue". I know CURRENT is
> > just a macro. Where can I find the definition of this
> > macro?
> A little grepping in the source would give you the answer there. It's in
> .../include/linux/blk.h.
Or:
make tags
vi -t CURRENT
8)
- Arnaldo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-03 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-03 21:34 The CURRENT macro Michael Zhu
2002-01-03 21:48 ` Jonathan Corbet
2002-01-03 21:55 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2002-01-04 8:03 ` Terje Eggestad
2002-01-03 22:01 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-01-03 22:14 ` Peter Makholm
2002-01-03 22:55 ` Tom Gall
2002-01-03 22:57 ` Tom Gall
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