Re: [PATCH] time: export nsec_to_clock_t

From: Zhang Rui
Date: Thu Mar 29 2018 - 10:58:21 EST


On ä, 2018-03-28 at 16:11 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> nsec_to_clock_t was traditionally used only in the core kernel, now
> we
> have a sysfs file that needs it from a loadable module, causing a
> link-time error:
>
> ERROR: "nsec_to_clock_t" [drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.ko] undefined!
>
> This exports the function the same way that we do for related
> interfaces.
>
> Fixes: 96cea33badc5 ("thermal: Add cooling device's statistics in
> sysfs")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the fix.
can I take this patch through thermal tree?

thanks,
rui
> ---
> Âkernel/time/time.c | 1 +
> Â1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/time.c b/kernel/time/time.c
> index 6fa99213fc72..97a262531f68 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/time.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/time.c
> @@ -768,6 +768,7 @@ u64 nsec_to_clock_t(u64 x)
> Â return div_u64(x * 9, (9ull * NSEC_PER_SEC + (USER_HZ / 2))
> / USER_HZ);
> Â#endif
> Â}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(nsec_to_clock_t);
> Â
> Âu64 jiffies64_to_nsecs(u64 j)
> Â{