Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] include: linux: Reorganize timekeeping and ktime
 headers
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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From:   Carlos Bilbao <bilbao@vt.edu>
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Date:   Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:11:07 -0500
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Hello again,

On 11/4/21 2:21 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 03:33:52PM -0400, Carlos Bilbao wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Some time ago I sent a small patch to avoid implicit function declaration. 
>> In particular, timekeeping.h was using ktime_to_ns(), a static function defined 
>> in a header it does no include, ktime.h. Some maintainers saw this as an 
>> opportunity to reorganize ktime, and so I did and tested for all architectures.
>> Now, this patch has fallen into the "limbo of patches", so the original problem
>> remains unsolved. Please, either take a look at this or check the original
>> patch for the header dependencies.
> 
> Please just resend after 5.16-rc1 is out, there's nothing we can do with
> this at this point in time.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 

I think that now it is a good time to send :)

Thanks!

Carlos.