linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rewrite unnecessary duplicated code to use FIELD

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

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@...dspring.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/

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