Re: [PATCH] EXPORT_SYMBOL() time functions

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 14:12 +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> > These functions were inlines before
> > 8b9365d753d9870bb6451504c13570b81923228f. Now EXPORT_SYMBOL() them to
> > allow them to be used in modules again.
>
> please do not add random exports without users; exports eat up kernel
> size and memory. At minimum specify which mainline modules use the
> exports..

Nothing in mainline now. I just found out that the module I'm writing doesn't 
work anymore as timeval_to_jiffies() disappeared. If this is planned to go 
away from modules I should consider switching to timespec.

Eike

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