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Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:02:39 +0200
From: Thomas Bittermann <t.bittermann@online.de>
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc5] kernel/time.c: add missing symbol exports
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Ingo Molnar schrieb:
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
>>> 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)?
> 
> i have no problems with that. I think it was even a traditional api, but 
> inlined.
Yes it was inlined before and got lost somewhere between 2.6.20 and 2.6.21-rcX - don't know
exactly which one it was (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/23/198)

Cheers & thanks
Thomas