From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>,
sam@ravnborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rename net_random to random32
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:19:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061013181922.GB721@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061012102638.7381269a@freekitty>
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:26:38AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> Make net_random() more widely available by calling it random32
>...
> --- a/lib/Makefile
> +++ b/lib/Makefile
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ #
> lib-y := ctype.o string.o vsprintf.o cmdline.o \
> bust_spinlocks.o rbtree.o radix-tree.o dump_stack.o \
> idr.o div64.o int_sqrt.o bitmap.o extable.o prio_tree.o \
> - sha1.o irq_regs.o carta_random32.o
> + sha1.o irq_regs.o random32.o carta_random32.o
>...
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/lib/random32.c
>...
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(random32);
>...
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(srandom32);
>...
EXPORT_SYMBOL's in lib-y are latent bugs (IMHO kbuild should error
on them):
The problem is that if only modules use these functions, they will be
omitted from the kernel image.
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-13 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200610111900.k9BJ01M4021853@hera.kernel.org>
2006-10-11 19:22 ` [PATCH] Add carta_random32() library routine Jeff Garzik
2006-10-11 19:29 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-12 7:07 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-12 17:26 ` [PATCH] rename net_random to random32 Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-12 21:43 ` David Miller
2006-10-13 18:19 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-10-13 18:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-13 19:09 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-13 22:14 ` David Miller
2006-10-14 10:41 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-10-28 16:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-10-11 19:39 ` [PATCH] Add carta_random32() library routine Andrew Morton
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