From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
sfrench@samba.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for January 12 (cifs vs. staging)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:21:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090112202136.GA8854@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <524f69650901121213l76dd4b6ap831d6da16876422f@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 02:13:29PM -0600, Steve French wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:23:07PM -0600, Steve French wrote:
> >> Is there some magic compile option alternative (other than renaming
> >> the function, which may be ok, since others probably don't depend on
> >> it)? MD5Init is used outside fs/cifs/md5.c so can't be static
> >
> > No, you should rename it to cifs_md5init to show that it is only for the
> > cifs module to use. Try not to polute the global namespace with generic
> > function names.
>
> Looks like cifs has the following related functions which I can rename
> if that makes it easier:
> 001a2e9 R_386_PC32 MD5Final
> 0001a302 R_386_PC32 MD5Update
> 0001a38c R_386_PC32 MD5Init
> 0001a39f R_386_PC32 MD5Update
That would make life easier for you as well :)
> Any others that I missed ...
Not that I see at the moment, but you might want to look at all of your
global symbol names to make sure they start with "cifs_".
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-12 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-12 4:45 linux-next: Tree for January 12 Stephen Rothwell
2009-01-12 18:19 ` linux-next: Tree for January 12 (cifs vs. staging) Randy Dunlap
2009-01-12 18:58 ` Steve French
2009-01-12 19:13 ` Greg KH
2009-01-12 19:23 ` Steve French
2009-01-12 19:32 ` Greg KH
2009-01-12 20:13 ` Steve French
2009-01-12 20:21 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-01-12 20:40 ` Steve French
2009-01-12 21:07 ` Steve French
2009-01-13 2:01 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-13 2:27 ` Dave Kleikamp
2009-01-13 2:35 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-12 19:19 ` Dave Kleikamp
2009-01-12 19:23 ` Greg KH
2009-01-12 19:35 ` Steve French
2009-01-12 18:50 ` [PATCH -next] libfc: needs CRC32 Randy Dunlap
2009-01-13 0:05 ` Love, Robert W
2009-01-12 18:53 ` [PATCH -next] scsi_debug: needs CRC_T10DIF Randy Dunlap
2009-01-13 3:26 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-12 19:08 ` linux-next: Tree for January 12 (afs/fscache) Randy Dunlap
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2009-01-13 6:35 linux-next: Tree for January 12 (cifs vs. staging) Herbert Xu
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