Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262656AbVBYJ0q (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:26:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262657AbVBYJ0q (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:26:46 -0500 Received: from moraine.clusterfs.com ([66.96.26.190]:40106 "EHLO moraine.clusterfs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262656AbVBYJ0o (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:26:44 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 02:26:40 -0700 From: Andreas Dilger To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , bunk@stusta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport do_settimeofday Message-ID: <20050225092640.GS27352@schnapps.adilger.int> Mail-Followup-To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , bunk@stusta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050224233742.GR8651@stusta.de> <20050224212448.367af4be.akpm@osdl.org> <1109318525.6290.32.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050225002804.4905b649.akpm@osdl.org> <58cb370e050225004759e1dc59@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <58cb370e050225004759e1dc59@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 952 Lines: 25 On Feb 25, 2005 09:47 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:28:04 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > I haven't found any possible modular usage of do_settimeofday in the > > > kernel. > > > > Sure. But there must have been a reason to export it in the first place. > > sloppy coding? Who knows? Maybe someone developed a kernel module that interfaces to an unusual clock chip on their motherboard. IMHO, all of this "_I_ don't see any use for it, lets get rid of it because it's not useful" changing is just a source of grief for anyone that doesn't have their code in the kernel. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/