Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751493AbXBVDkS (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:40:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751495AbXBVDkS (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:40:18 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:60129 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751493AbXBVDkQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:40:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:40:01 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Rolf Eike Beer Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , john stultz , Roman Zippel , Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [PATCH] EXPORT_SYMBOL() time functions Message-ID: <20070222034001.GB9027@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Rolf Eike Beer , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , john stultz , Roman Zippel , Jeremy Fitzhardinge References: <200702211412.23388.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> <200702211413.38840.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200702211413.38840.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 749 Lines: 14 On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 02:13:38PM +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > These functions were inlines before 8b9365d753d9870bb6451504c13570b81923228f. > Now EXPORT_SYMBOL() them to allow them to be used in modules again. Just because they happened to be inlined that doesn't mean modules should be using them. In fact no intree module uses them exactly because they're not intended to be used by this kind of code. Please show the code you want to use this for so we can see what you're really trying to do. - 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/