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Message-Id: <1190758127.17409.81.camel@chaos>
Date:	Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:08:47 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UML - time build fix

Jeff,

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:56 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:54:15PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 13:37 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > > Put back an implementation of timeval_to_ns in
> > > arch/um/os-Linux/time.c.  tglx pointed out in his review of tickless
> > > support that there was a perfectly good implementation of it in
> > > linux/time.h.  The problem is that this is userspace code which can't
> > > pull in kernel headers and there doesn't seem to be a libc version.
> > 
> > Oops. Did not notice. 
> 
> It's a UML peculiarity...
> 
> > Can't we move it into some header file which is accessible from everywhere ?
> 
> Not in the generic kernel.  UML has some generally includable headers
> of its own, but that doesn't really help.
> 
> The one thing that would help is a libc timeval_to_ns.

Fair enough.

	tglx


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