Re: [RFC] Rename SECTOR_SIZE to IDE_SECTOR_SIZE

[Chris Wedgwood]

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 (?)
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