Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc5] kernel/time.c: add missing symbol exports

Thomas Bittermann
2007-04-04T21:13:17Z

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() ...

Thanks for your quick response.

Thomas