Re: linux-next: Tree for January 12 (cifs vs. staging)

From: Steve French
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 15:13:44 EST


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> 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

Any others that I missed ...

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Thanks,

Steve
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