Re: [PATCH] SG: set names for numeric constants

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

>
> This patch defines names for numeric constants that
> used in scatter list for more convenient code reading.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
...
> @@ -73,7 +76,7 @@ static inline void sg_set_page(struct scatterlist *sg, struct page *page,
>  	sg->length = len;
>  }
>
> -#define sg_page(sg)	((struct page *) ((sg)->page_link & ~0x3))
> +#define sg_page(sg)	((struct page *) ((sg)->page_link & ~SG_MASK))
>
> -#define sg_is_chain(sg)		((sg)->page_link & 0x01)
> -#define sg_is_last(sg)		((sg)->page_link & 0x02)
> +#define sg_is_chain(sg)		((sg)->page_link & SG_CHAIN)
> +#define sg_is_last(sg)		((sg)->page_link & SG_LAST)
>  #define sg_chain_ptr(sg)	\
> -	((struct scatterlist *) ((sg)->page_link & ~0x03))
> +	((struct scatterlist *) ((sg)->page_link & ~SG_MASK))

while you're at it, could you move all those macros to the top of the
file, rather than leaving them scattered across the first 100 lines or
so?  it would just make them easier to find when you're perusing the
code.

rday
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