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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:48:14 -0700
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1-mm1] Export jiffies_to_timespec()
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 05:36:54PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>   
>> Export jiffies_to_timespec; previously modules used the inlined header 
>> version.
>>     
>
> NACK, drivers shouldn know about these timekeeping details and no
> in-tree driver uses it (fortunately)
>   

timespec_to_jiffies *is* exported, so it would seem to be a symmetry 
issue if nothing else.

    J