Re: [PATCH] cifs: fix build on !CONFIG_KEYS

[Jeff Layton]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:30:48 +0200
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sunday, 12 of October 2008, Steven Noonan wrote:
> > Hmm, which fix is correct though? Depending on KEYS in Kconfig, or
> > adding a nop for it?
> 
> Well, according to git-blame the key_revoke() has been added to fs/cifs/sess.c
> only recently while key_put() was there before.  For this reason I think it's
> correct to handle key_revoke() in analogy with key_put(), ie. add an empty
> definition for it if CONFIG_KEYS is unset.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rafael
> 

Agreed. It should be possible to build CIFS w/o KEYS support. Adding an empty
key_revoke looks like the right thing to do. Looks like Adrian Bunk sent a
patch for this a few hours ago:

    Subject: [2.6 patch] add key_revoke() dummy for KEYS=n

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