From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Thomas Bittermann <t.bittermann@online.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc5] kernel/time.c: add missing symbol exports
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:30:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070404143052.b1572cc9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461414E7.6080302@online.de>
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)?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 21:34 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
2007-04-04 21:30 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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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