linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] EXPORT_SYMBOL() time functions

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Message-Id: <200702211523.54198.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Date:	Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:23:47 +0100
From:	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EXPORT_SYMBOL() time functions

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 14:12 +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> > These functions were inlines before
> > 8b9365d753d9870bb6451504c13570b81923228f. Now EXPORT_SYMBOL() them to
> > allow them to be used in modules again.
>
> please do not add random exports without users; exports eat up kernel
> size and memory. At minimum specify which mainline modules use the
> exports..

Nothing in mainline now. I just found out that the module I'm writing doesn't 
work anymore as timeval_to_jiffies() disappeared. If this is planned to go 
away from modules I should consider switching to timespec.

Eike

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