Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:56:52 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | RE: [2.6 patch] unexport tick_nohz_get_sleep_length |
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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 <bunk@kernel.org> > >> > >> --- > >> 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,
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