Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751442AbXBVH1o (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:27:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945922AbXBVH1o (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:27:44 -0500 Received: from mail.sf-mail.de ([62.27.20.61]:36276 "EHLO mail.sf-mail.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751442AbXBVH1n (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:27:43 -0500 From: Rolf Eike Beer To: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] EXPORT_SYMBOL() time functions Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:28:15 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: 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> <20070222034001.GB9027@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20070222034001.GB9027@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2679821.4R8GGvqh4J"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200702220828.16578.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1358 Lines: 39 --nextPart2679821.4R8GGvqh4J Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. Trying to convert a given user value (in milliseconds) to a timeout. No=20 problem doing this with struct timespec. Eike --nextPart2679821.4R8GGvqh4J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBF3UYQXKSJPmm5/E4RAjUiAJ9V0IJNZ6sqGYvXqPgr5xdP7lKyHQCeIqXX gqG/tw4ifJgoUmXF92/T6Ro= =hwkR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2679821.4R8GGvqh4J-- - 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/