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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0612230017000.16006@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:19:25 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rewrite unnecessary duplicated code to use
 FIELD_SIZEOF().


On Dec 22 2006 09:43, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>that's the name as it *already* existed in kernel.h.  however, since
>no one was actually using it yet, it's a piece of cake to give it a
>better name.  either FIELD_SIZE or MEMBER_SIZE would work just fine.

I 'd go for MEMBER_SIZE. (Compare the proportion of literature that uses
'struct members' and 'struct fields'. On another note,
Regular ("agricultural/geometrical") meaning: Feld (ger.) <-> field
informatics: Feld <-> array)


	-`J'
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