I bumped into the GLOBAL_EXTERN macro in the cifs code. I'm not sure I understand the purpose of this. Can someone explain why we need this instead of simply using "extern"? Thanks Suresh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html