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From: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Purpose of GLOBAL_EXTERN macro
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:10:09 +0530
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I bumped into the GLOBAL_EXTERN macro in the cifs code. I'm not sure I
understand the purpose of this. Can someone explain why we need this
instead of simply using "extern"?


Thanks
Suresh