Re: [RFC] Rename SECTOR_SIZE to IDE_SECTOR_SIZE

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Tue, Oct 26 2004, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:47:51AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> > It's highly silly to rename the same name + the same value to
> > multiple different names.
> 
> initially i was going to do that, but when i looked at the code i
> realized the problem is some of the users seem to be semantically
> different and potentially might want to be changed separate to the
> others
> 
> > Put it in a common header somewhere, and only rename the oddballs
> > (if any).
> 
> we could have UNIX_SECTOR_SIZE in blkdev.h but as i said, some users
> really are 512 for different reasons that might change (?)

Please, just call it IO_SECTOR_SIZE or BIO_SECTOR_SIZE to signify that
it's the block io sector size. And use that where it applies, leave the
rest of the unrelated cases alone.

-- 
Jens Axboe