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

On May 3 2007 23:18, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>  	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.

Why do we even have imajor() if all it does is calling the MAJOR()
macro?


Jan
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