Re: [linux-cifs-client] Fwd: [PATCH] Fix CIFS compilation with CONFIG_KEYS unset

From: Steve French
Date: Sun Oct 12 2008 - 12:58:02 EST


On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:40:39 -0500
>> "Steve French" <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Actually, I like Adrian/Rafael's fix better. I think we should avoid
>> cluttering up the code with #ifdef's where possible. key_put() already
>> is a no-op when CONFIG_KEYS is disabled. We might as well do the same
>> thing with key_revoke().
> I don't think it matters much - but we probably shouldn't be
> overriding global functions.

To clarify, I like fixing it in keys.h better than overriding it in
cifs, but in the meantime we need an ifdef in cifs until keys.h
changes.



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Thanks,

Steve
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