[ewg] [PATCH] RHEL5 backport crypto.h and scatterlist.h cleanup
Jack Morgenstein
jackm at dev.mellanox.co.il
Wed May 6 23:00:03 PDT 2009
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 18:45, Jon Mason wrote:
> Lustre is getting a struct redeinfition due to its declaration in the
> Lustre header files as well as in the RHEL5 backports. Fortunately,
> OFED can avoid defining the struct all together, as it already exists in
> the base kernel's header files in ncrypto.h. By using the ncrypto.h
> header file in the base kernel, it removes a significant amount of
> duplicate functionality already existing in crypto.h and scatterlist.h
> in the RHEL5.2 and RHEL5.3 backports. Also, this functionality
> duplication can cause problems if both the OFED headers and ncrypto.h
> are included in the same file.
>
Looks very good, Jon!
Vlad, please take this patch for ofed 1.4.1.
- Jack
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