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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:00:07 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Thomas Bittermann <t.bittermann@online.de>
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       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc5] kernel/time.c: add missing symbol exports
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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?