From: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EXPORT_SYMBOL() time functions
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:23:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702211523.54198.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1172064736.3531.191.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 14:12 +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> > These functions were inlines before
> > 8b9365d753d9870bb6451504c13570b81923228f. Now EXPORT_SYMBOL() them to
> > allow them to be used in modules again.
>
> please do not add random exports without users; exports eat up kernel
> size and memory. At minimum specify which mainline modules use the
> exports..
Nothing in mainline now. I just found out that the module I'm writing doesn't
work anymore as timeval_to_jiffies() disappeared. If this is planned to go
away from modules I should consider switching to timespec.
Eike
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-21 13:12 [PATCH] EXPORT_SYMBOL() time functions Rolf Eike Beer
2007-02-21 13:13 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2007-02-22 3:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-22 7:28 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2007-02-21 13:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-21 14:23 ` Rolf Eike Beer [this message]
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