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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rewrite unnecessary duplicated code to use FIELD_SIZEOF().
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:05:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061222140550.GB26033@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061220164651.4ee2e960.akpm@osdl.org>

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 04:46:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:43:39 -0500 (EST)
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> >   as with ARRAY_SIZE(), there are a number of places (mercifully, far
> > fewer) that recode what could be done with the FIELD_SIZEOF() macro in
> > kernel.h.

Who introduced FIELD_SIZEOF?  The name is the wrong way around, it should
either be SIZEOF_FIELD if you want the SIZEOF part of FIELD_SIZE if you
want to follow the ARRAY_SIZE example/


  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-22 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-17 12:43 [RFC][PATCH] Rewrite unnecessary duplicated code to use FIELD_SIZEOF() Robert P. J. Day
2006-12-21  0:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-22 14:05   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-12-22 14:43     ` Robert P. J. Day
2006-12-22 23:19       ` Jan Engelhardt

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