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

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Apr 04 2007 - 17:34:39 EST


On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:13:11 +0200
Thomas Bittermann <t.bittermann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Andrew Morton schrieb:
> > On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:20:54 +0200
> > Thomas Bittermann <t.bittermann@xxxxxxxxx> 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)?

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