Re: [PATCH 2.5] Enable ALIGN #undef for drivers/net/defxx.c

[Andrew Morton]

Steven Barnhart wrote:
> 
> The following patch #undef's the variable ALIGN in include/linux/cache.h
> so that drivers/net/defxx.c can use the same variable. Patch has been
> tested and defxx.c compiles. Please apply.
> 

But they're identical.  It would be better to formalise the kernel-wideness
of ALIGN() and just use it in defxx?

 drivers/net/defxx.h    |    7 -------
 include/linux/cache.h  |    3 +--
 include/linux/kernel.h |    1 +
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- 25/include/linux/cache.h~align	Sun Dec 29 16:02:54 2002
+++ 25-akpm/include/linux/cache.h	Sun Dec 29 16:03:13 2002
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 #ifndef __LINUX_CACHE_H
 #define __LINUX_CACHE_H
 
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/config.h>
 #include <asm/cache.h>
 
-#define ALIGN(x,a) (((x)+(a)-1)&~((a)-1))
-
 #ifndef L1_CACHE_ALIGN
 #define L1_CACHE_ALIGN(x) ALIGN(x, L1_CACHE_BYTES)
 #endif
--- 25/drivers/net/defxx.h~align	Sun Dec 29 16:02:54 2002
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/net/defxx.h	Sun Dec 29 16:05:17 2002
@@ -1669,13 +1669,6 @@ typedef union
 #define XMT_BUFF_K_SA		7				/* six byte source address */
 #define XMT_BUFF_K_DATA		13				/* offset to start of packet data */
 
-/*
- * Macro evaluates to "value" aligned to "size" bytes.  Make sure that
- * "size" is greater than 0 bytes.
- */
-
-#define ALIGN(value,size) ((value + (size - 1)) & ~(size - 1))
-
 /* Macro for checking a "value" is within a specific range */
 
 #define IN_RANGE(value,low,high) ((value >= low) && (value <= high))
--- 25/include/linux/kernel.h~align	Sun Dec 29 16:02:54 2002
+++ 25-akpm/include/linux/kernel.h	Sun Dec 29 16:03:55 2002
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #define STACK_MAGIC	0xdeadbeef
 
 #define ARRAY_SIZE(x) (sizeof(x) / sizeof((x)[0]))
+#define ALIGN(x,a) (((x)+(a)-1)&~((a)-1))
 
 #define	KERN_EMERG	"<0>"	/* system is unusable			*/
 #define	KERN_ALERT	"<1>"	/* action must be taken immediately	*/

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