From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751549AbXDDVNR (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 17:13:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751615AbXDDVNR (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 17:13:17 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:64644 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751549AbXDDVNP (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 17:13:15 -0400 Message-ID: <461414E7.6080302@online.de> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:13:11 +0200 From: Thomas Bittermann User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc5] kernel/time.c: add missing symbol exports References: <461408A6.5010005@online.de> <20070404140007.15aa1893.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070404140007.15aa1893.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19RlRwXzybQRGOWVXJuATnfPjgzlzENBhQ4if5 T/EkM3bdkCYGd/LCjnXbD6Fa+AHIFJmPwm+R7BMuoT5OLL0o5d dhqT9mu5+FN8/G0UqsLaw== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton schrieb: > On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:20:54 +0200 > Thomas Bittermann 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() ... Thanks for your quick response. Thomas