Re: Adaptec AIC7XXX v 6.0.6 BETA Released

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 05:14:51 EST


> I'll update my patch tomorrow to restore the definition of current.
> I do fear, however, that this will perpetuate the polution of the
> namespace should "current" ever get cleaned up.

It can probably get cleaned up after 2.4 by making current() the actual
inline. For 2.2 it won't change. Consider it a feature.

It was done originally because the 2.0 code using #define based current
generated better code than using inline functions. 2.2 upwards use a different
(far nicer) method to find current.

Note also that you cannot rely on 'get_current()'. The only way to find
current is to use current. get_current() the inline is an x86ism.

Alan

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