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SubjectRe: [patch 00/43] ktimer reworked
Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Or just leave the timer_lists as they are.

If I'm going to spend the next two years buried in helpful
s/timer_list/ktimeout/ patches then there'd better be a darn good reason
for the rename, thanks. I don't see one.
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