On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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" <[email protected]> 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/
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.
rday
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