Messages in this thread | | | From | Kyle Moffett <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/43] ktimer reworked | Date | Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:36:22 -0500 |
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On Dec 01, 2005, at 19:02, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:15 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> Heh, in my dumb non-native speaker mind I'd expectit the other way >> around, as in a timeout is expected to time out :) and a timer is >> expect to happen, as in say the timer the tells you your breakfast >> egg is ready. > > Which is perfectly the point Kyle made.
In any case, the real important note here is that the two are pretty different concepts, ones that lend themselves to _very_ different optimizations, that are currently lumped together. The very fact that some developers easily get them confused says that we need a good clean implementation of both distinct APIs with comparable documentation, including a bunch of good example usages.
Cheers, Kyle Moffett
-- I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. -- Poul Anderson
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