Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 2

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:10:27PM -0500, Karim Yaghmour wrote:
> 
> Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 01:38:22PM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> > 
> >>+extern void * alloc_rchan_buf(unsigned long size,
> >>+			      struct page ***page_array,
> >>+			      int *page_count);
> >>+extern void free_rchan_buf(void *buf,
> >>+			   struct page **page_array,
> >>+			   int page_count);
> > 
> > 
> > As these will be "polluting" the global namespace of the kernel, could
> > you add "relayfs_" to the front of them?
> 
> BTW, these functions are in buffers.h which is an internal header to
> fs/relayfs/*.c files. buffers.h is not included in anything outside.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no namespace pollution in that
> case, right? All that does contribute to namespace pollution is in
> include/linux/relayfs_fs.h.

When relayfs is built into the kernel, those symbols are then global to
the whole static kernel.

Please be nice and rename them.

thanks,

greg k-h