From: Thomas Bittermann <t.bittermann@online.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc5] kernel/time.c: add missing symbol exports
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:13:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <461414E7.6080302@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070404140007.15aa1893.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton schrieb:
> On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:20:54 +0200
> Thomas Bittermann <t.bittermann@online.de> wrote:
>
>> This patch adds 2 missing symbol exports:
>>
>> jiffies_to_timeval
>> timeval_to_jiffies
>
> I don't see any in-tree code which needs these symbols?
>
> The exports might make sense from a consistency POV, but I'd be interested
> in knowing what motivated this change?
I'm working on a Fedora 7 LiveCD which integrates dm-raid4-5
(http://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/dm/dm-raid45/readme). dm-raid4-5.c uses
jiffies_to_timeval() ...
Thanks for your quick response.
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-04 20:20 [PATCH 2.6.21-rc5] kernel/time.c: add missing symbol exports Thomas Bittermann
2007-04-04 21:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 21:13 ` Thomas Bittermann [this message]
2007-04-04 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 21:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-04 22:02 ` Thomas Bittermann
2007-04-04 21:38 ` john stultz
2007-04-04 21:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
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