Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262304AbUJ0HAn (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 03:00:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262323AbUJ0G5M (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:57:12 -0400 Received: from pimout2-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.101]:46542 "EHLO pimout2-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262306AbUJ0Gz3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:55:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:55:24 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Jeff Garzik Cc: LKML , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [RFC] Rename SECTOR_SIZE to IDE_SECTOR_SIZE Message-ID: <20041027065524.GA1524@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <20041027060828.GA32396@taniwha.stupidest.org> <417F4497.3020205@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <417F4497.3020205@pobox.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 815 Lines: 20 On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:47:51AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > It's highly silly to rename the same name + the same value to > multiple different names. initially i was going to do that, but when i looked at the code i realized the problem is some of the users seem to be semantically different and potentially might want to be changed separate to the others > Put it in a common header somewhere, and only rename the oddballs > (if any). we could have UNIX_SECTOR_SIZE in blkdev.h but as i said, some users really are 512 for different reasons that might change (?) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/