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

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 14:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:13:11 +0200
> Thomas Bittermann <t.bittermann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Andrew Morton schrieb:
> > > On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:20:54 +0200
> > > Thomas Bittermann <t.bittermann@xxxxxxxxx> 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)?

Fine with me.

	tglx


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