From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Bittermann <t.bittermann@online.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc5] kernel/time.c: add missing symbol exports
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:42:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175722963.28263.350.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070404143052.b1572cc9.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 14:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:13:11 +0200
> Thomas Bittermann <t.bittermann@online.de> wrote:
>
> > 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() ...
> >
>
> Fair enough.
>
> John/Ingo/Thomas: have you any problems with exporting the above to modules
> (with EXPORT_SYMBOL)?
Fine with me.
tglx
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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
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 [this message]
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