Re: [PATCH] Rewrite the MAJOR() macro as a call to imajor().

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:23:54 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:

> Replace the MAJOR() macro invocation with a call to the inline
> imajor() routine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
> index 6b5b642..08da15b 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/loop.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
> @@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ static inline int is_loop_device(struct file *file)
>  {
>  	struct inode *i = file->f_mapping->host;
> 
> -	return i && S_ISBLK(i->i_mode) && MAJOR(i->i_rdev) == LOOP_MAJOR;
> +	return i && S_ISBLK(i->i_mode) && imajor(i) == LOOP_MAJOR;
>  }

there's no runtime change, and I count a couple hundred MAJORs in the tree.

I don't want to receive 200 one-line patches please.  If you're going to
do this then please do decent-sized per-subsystem patches and see if you can
persuade the subsystem maintainers to take them directly.
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