Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Dec 2005 13:40:53 +0100 (CET) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/21] hrtimer - High-resolution timer subsystem |
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Hi,
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Sure... hmm, the names timeout and timer themselves have something > vagely wrong about them, but I can't quite place my finger on it, > not a real worry though... > > Maybe it is that timeout is an end result, but timer is a mechanism. > So maybe it should be 'struct interval', 'struct timeout'; > or 'struct timer', 'struct timeout_timer'. > > But I don't know really, it isn't a big deal.
Nick, thanks for speaking up about this. My mistake was to make a big deal out of it, because I knew it would confuse more people. After I got the heat for this, it seems nobody else want to get flamed for it.
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