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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:30:52 -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>,
       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
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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)?