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

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Date:	Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:28:15 +0100
From:	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...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

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 02:13:38PM +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> > These functions were inlines before
> > 8b9365d753d9870bb6451504c13570b81923228f. Now EXPORT_SYMBOL() them to
> > allow them to be used in modules again.
>
> Just because they happened to be inlined that doesn't mean modules should
> be using them.  In fact no intree module uses them exactly because they're
> not intended to be used by this kind of code.  Please show the code you
> want to use this for so we can see what you're really trying to do.

Trying to convert a given user value (in milliseconds) to a timeout. No 
problem doing this with struct timespec.

Eike

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