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Message-Id: <20061011111739.09c25a8e.akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:17:39 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1-mm1] Export jiffies_to_timespec()
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:16:28 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> 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)
Disagree.
a) `jiffies' and `timepsec' are hardly "details". They are basic
kernel-wide concepts. timespecs are even known to userspace. Exporting
a helper function which converts from one to the other is perfectly
reasonable.
b) jiffies_to_timespec() was previously available to modules. We
changed that without notice and we changed it *by accident*. There was
no intention to withdraw jiffies_to_timespec() from the
available-to-modules API.
If we really wanted to withdraw jiffies_to_timespec() then we'd mark it
__deprecated_for_modules for a while, then withdraw it. But there's no
earthly reason why we'd want to withdraw it: the export makes sense.
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