Re: The CURRENT macro

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:55:10 -0200


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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