Re: Exports for hrtimer APIs

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:15:52PM -0800, Stone, Joshua I wrote:
>...
> If SystemTap is to be able to make use of hrtimers, the only alternative
> I see is to create our own APIs in the tree that wrap hrtimer, and then
> export those.  This seems much less sensible than just exporting what is
> already there...

The question is if the exports you want to add to the kernel are 
acceptable or not.

If the answer would be "no", trying to threaten with this kind of cheap 
tricks is silly since the answer to your exported wrappers would be the 
same as for the direct exports.

> Josh

cu
Adrian

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