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

[Steve French]

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

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:58:42PM -0600, Steve French wrote:
>> There is not just the cifs md5 one (which has been around a long
>> time), but an md5_init (static) in crypto and the new one in rt.  The
>> addition of the new one (rt md5_init) causes the build problem.   It
>> would be nice if we could use the same md5 routines though ... last
>> time we checked the crypto one was not well suited for calculating
>> signatures as a network fs would do though.
>
> I'll fix up the staging rt drivers to not do this, but cifs shouldn't be
> declaring such functions as globals either :)
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>



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Thanks,

Steve
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