Re: [PATCH 6/14] i386 / Add some segment convenience functions

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:54:31PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> Add some convenient segment macros to the kernel.  This makes the
> rather obfuscated 'seg & 4' go away.

segment_from_ldt is a weird name for this. I wouldn't guess it to 
be a test for something. How about is_ldt_segment() instead? 

-Andi
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