Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751910AbWCNVb7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:31:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751337AbWCNVb7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:31:59 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:53770 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751910AbWCNVb6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:31:58 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:31:56 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: "Stone, Joshua I" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , LKML Subject: Re: Exports for hrtimer APIs Message-ID: <20060314213156.GU13973@stusta.de> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1088 Lines: 31 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/