From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: walter harms Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:33:13 +0000 Subject: Re: [KJ] need a better name for existing "FIELD_SIZE" macro sound/. Message-Id: <45D096C9.8070203@bfs.de> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org in my old kernel code is is only used inside the vx driver. IMHO it can be replaced with VX_FIELD_SIZE is is only used by functions in .h (eek) and one .c code. re, wh Robert P. J. Day wrote: > one of the outstanding tasks in the wiki is to use the > "FIELD_SIZE()" macro (currently defined as FIELD_SIZEOF but that's > being renamed in the patch) in include/linux/kernel.h to simplify some > code in the tree. i had already submitted that patch without noticing > that a few files under the sound/ directory already define a > "FIELD_SIZE" macro which clashes: > > $ grep -rw FIELD_SIZE * > > andrew morton suggested that the easiest solution is to just rename > the one under the sound/ directory, but i have no idea what that macro > represents. anyone know what's going on there and can recommend a > better (and less universally intrusive) name that doesn't steal prime > macro naming real estate? > > once the name "FIELD_SIZE" is reclaimed from those sound files, i > can resubmit the global patch. thanks. > > rday > _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors