Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Dec 2005 17:06:42 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/43] ktimer reworked |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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