Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 29 Mar 2018 21:11:42 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] time: export nsec_to_clock_t |
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, Zhang Rui wrote: > On 三, 2018-03-28 at 16:11 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > nsec_to_clock_t was traditionally used only in the core kernel, now > > we > > have a sysfs file that needs it from a loadable module, causing a > > link-time error: > > > > ERROR: "nsec_to_clock_t" [drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.ko] undefined! > > > > This exports the function the same way that we do for related > > interfaces. > > > > Fixes: 96cea33badc5 ("thermal: Add cooling device's statistics in > > sysfs") > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > > Thanks for the fix. > can I take this patch through thermal tree?
Well, the question is what's the point of that?
Why does a new interface expose time in state in clock_t instead in normal time units, e.g. nsec/usec/msec ?
That makes no sense whatsoever.
Thanks,
tglx |  |