From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
bunk@stusta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport do_settimeofday
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 02:26:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050225092640.GS27352@schnapps.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58cb370e050225004759e1dc59@mail.gmail.com>
On Feb 25, 2005 09:47 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:28:04 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> > > I haven't found any possible modular usage of do_settimeofday in the
> > > kernel.
> >
> > Sure. But there must have been a reason to export it in the first place.
>
> sloppy coding?
Who knows? Maybe someone developed a kernel module that interfaces to an
unusual clock chip on their motherboard. IMHO, all of this "_I_ don't
see any use for it, lets get rid of it because it's not useful" changing
is just a source of grief for anyone that doesn't have their code in
the kernel.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-25 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-24 23:37 [2.6 patch] unexport do_settimeofday Adrian Bunk
2005-02-25 5:24 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-25 8:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-25 8:28 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-25 8:47 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-02-25 9:26 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2005-02-25 9:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-25 9:46 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-27 22:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-25 21:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-25 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-25 23:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-25 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-26 10:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-26 15:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 15:22 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 13:33 ` [2.6 patch] deprecate EXPORT_SYMBOL(do_settimeofday) Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 13:37 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-02-26 13:38 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-02-26 14:46 ` Russell King
2005-02-26 16:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 16:46 ` Russell King
2005-02-26 17:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 17:20 ` Russell King
2005-02-27 0:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 17:29 ` Russell King
2005-02-27 0:43 ` Adrian Bunk
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