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SubjectRe: [PATCH] EXPORT_SYMBOL() time functions
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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
problem doing this with struct timespec.

Eike
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