On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:17:39AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:16:28 +0100
> Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 05:36:54PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > > Export jiffies_to_timespec; previously modules used the inlined header
> > > version.
> >
> > NACK, drivers shouldn know about these timekeeping details and no
> > in-tree driver uses it (fortunately)
>
> Disagree.
>
> a) `jiffies' and `timepsec' are hardly "details". They are basic
> kernel-wide concepts. timespecs are even known to userspace. Exporting
> a helper function which converts from one to the other is perfectly
> reasonable.
That non one in tree ever uses it is a very good reason no to export it
either. While there are still far too many direct jiffy users there
is no one directly convertin it to a timespec for good reason.
>
> b) jiffies_to_timespec() was previously available to modules. We
> changed that without notice and we changed it *by accident*. There was
> no intention to withdraw jiffies_to_timespec() from the
> available-to-modules API.
By that rationale everything errornously implemented as a macro or inline
at some point will need to be exported. Except for you we still maintain
that we don't want to keep unused exports. Arjan even put a formal mechanism
in to warn about them and has gotten a global buy-in to kill them. This
will fall under this ASAP and only give people a short period to keep using
it. Not a very useful message.
(especially when the only user is closed source crap where people should
help the proper reverse-engineered driver instead)
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