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

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Sunday, 12 of October 2008, Steve French wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:40:39 -0500
> >> "Steve French" <smfrench at gmail.com> 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.

Well, adding an empty definition for key_revoke() in the !CONFIG_KEYS case
makes sense anyway IMO.