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

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Date:	Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:30:52 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Thomas Bittermann <t.bittermann@...ine.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc5] kernel/time.c: add missing symbol exports

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

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