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

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:13:29 -0600
From:	"Steve French" <smfrench@...il.com>
To:	"Greg KH" <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	"Stephen Rothwell" <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	sfrench@...ba.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for January 12 (cifs vs. staging)

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

Any others that I missed ...

-- 
Thanks,

Steve
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