On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:26:38AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> Make net_random() more widely available by calling it random32
>...
> --- a/lib/Makefile
> +++ b/lib/Makefile
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ #
> lib-y := ctype.o string.o vsprintf.o cmdline.o \
> bust_spinlocks.o rbtree.o radix-tree.o dump_stack.o \
> idr.o div64.o int_sqrt.o bitmap.o extable.o prio_tree.o \
> - sha1.o irq_regs.o carta_random32.o
> + sha1.o irq_regs.o random32.o carta_random32.o
>...
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/lib/random32.c
>...
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(random32);
>...
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(srandom32);
>...
EXPORT_SYMBOL's in lib-y are latent bugs (IMHO kbuild should error
on them):
The problem is that if only modules use these functions, they will be
omitted from the kernel image.
cu
Adrian
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