Feel free to change function name. I think that it is always a good idea to use different names for different things. Just inventing correct or better name is hard... On Wednesday 29 January 2025 16:23:38 Steve French wrote: > Any thoughts on whether the use of two different parse_reparse_point() > functions with the same name is confusing? Should we change the name > of one of them? > > in fs/smb/client/cifsproto.h there is one parse_reparse_point() declaration: > > int parse_reparse_point(struct reparse_data_buffer *buf, > u32 plen, struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb, > const char *full_path, > struct cifs_open_info_data *data); > > > And in fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h there is a different one; > smb_version_operation --> parse_reparse_point() > > int (*parse_reparse_point)(struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb, > const char *full_path, > struct kvec *rsp_iov, > struct cifs_open_info_data *data); > > > /smb3-kernel$ git grep parse_reparse_point > fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h: int (*parse_reparse_point)(struct > cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb, > fs/smb/client/cifsproto.h:int parse_reparse_point(struct > reparse_data_buffer *buf, > fs/smb/client/inode.c: } else if (iov && > server->ops->parse_reparse_point) { > fs/smb/client/inode.c: rc = > server->ops->parse_reparse_point(cifs_sb, > fs/smb/client/reparse.c:int parse_reparse_point(struct reparse_data_buffer *buf, > fs/smb/client/reparse.c:int smb2_parse_reparse_point(struct > cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb, > fs/smb/client/reparse.c: return parse_reparse_point(buf, plen, > cifs_sb, full_path, data); > fs/smb/client/reparse.h:int smb2_parse_reparse_point(struct > cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb, > fs/smb/client/smb1ops.c:static int cifs_parse_reparse_point(struct > cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb, > fs/smb/client/smb1ops.c: return parse_reparse_point(buf, plen, > cifs_sb, full_path, data); > fs/smb/client/smb1ops.c: .parse_reparse_point = cifs_parse_reparse_point, > fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c: .parse_reparse_point = smb2_parse_reparse_point, > fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c: .parse_reparse_point = smb2_parse_reparse_point, > fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c: .parse_reparse_point = smb2_parse_reparse_point, > fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c: .parse_reparse_point = smb2_parse_reparse_point, > > > -- > Thanks, > > Steve