public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>,
	Andre Hedrick <andre@pyxtechnologies.com>,
	"J. E. J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-2.4.18-modified-scsi-h.patch
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:47:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DDA8746.3010409@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10211182138310.2779-200000@master.linux-ide.org>

Patrick Mansfield wrote:

> I don't see why we need the #define, or is that another patch?



The define exists for the same reason that HAVE_xxx exists in 
include/linux/netdevice.h and other headers:  a feature test macro, so 
code using this pointer can detect its presence or absence.  The world 
of drivers is not all in the kernel tarball, ya know ;-)

But as I said, the macro is misnamed, it should be 
HAVE_UPPER_PRIVATE_DATA or similar.

	Jeff




  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-19 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20021118171446.A28459@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com>
2002-11-19  6:16 ` linux-2.4.18-modified-scsi-h.patch Andre Hedrick
2002-11-19  6:28   ` linux-2.4.18-modified-scsi-h.patch Jeff Garzik
2002-11-19  6:42     ` linux-2.4.18-modified-scsi-h.patch Andre Hedrick
2002-11-19 10:11   ` linux-2.4.18-modified-scsi-h.patch Douglas Gilbert
2002-11-19 12:16     ` linux-2.4.18-modified-scsi-h.patch Andre Hedrick
2002-11-19 18:40     ` linux-2.4.18-modified-scsi-h.patch Patrick Mansfield
2002-11-19 18:48       ` linux-2.4.18-modified-scsi-h.patch Andre Hedrick
2002-11-19 18:47   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-11-19 18:50     ` linux-2.4.18-modified-scsi-h.patch Andre Hedrick

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=3DDA8746.3010409@pobox.com \
    --to=jgarzik@pobox.com \
    --cc=James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com \
    --cc=andre@pyxtechnologies.com \
    --cc=dougg@torque.net \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=patmans@us.ibm.com \
    --cc=torvalds@transmeta.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox