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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:55:10 -0200
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)
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Subject: Re: The CURRENT macro
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Em Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:48:39PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet escreveu:
> > In Alessandro Rubini's book Linux Device Driver(Second
> > Edition), Chatper 12

> Alessandro and...um...some other guy...:)

Yes, I know that other guy, very nice guy indeed 8)
 
> > he said that "By accessing the
> > fields in the request structure, usually by way of
> > CURRENT" and "CURRENT is just a pointer into
> > blk_dev[MAJOR_NR].request_queue". I know CURRENT is
> > just a macro. Where can I find the definition of this
> > macro?
 
> A little grepping in the source would give you the answer there.  It's in
> .../include/linux/blk.h.  

Or:

make tags
vi -t CURRENT 

8)

- Arnaldo
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