On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> >On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> >> This patch removes the unused
> >> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tick_nohz_get_sleep_length).
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> ---
> >> f7c83dfe117f4fd072b2506ae090e4145abda362
> >> diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> >> index 10a1347..5997456 100644
> >> --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> >> +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> >> @@ -320,8 +320,6 @@ ktime_t tick_nohz_get_sleep_length(void)
> >> return ts->sleep_length;
> >> }
> >>
> >> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tick_nohz_get_sleep_length);
> >> -
> >
> >Hmm, this was added to allow the cpuidle governers modular
> >build. Seems this was changed to compiled in only.
> >
> >Len, Venki, is this the final decision ?
> >
>
> Yes. This was done recently for proper fallback to old ACPI policy in
> case CPUIDLE is not selected. With that being module, falling back to
> ACPI policy at run time makes things ugly.
Makes sense. I go ahead and nuke the export.
Thanks,
tglx
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