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Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-2.5.54_delay-cleanup_A0
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 19:29, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Wouldn't it be saner to initialize the timer to something that can at 
> least do estimated loops, and then just unconditionally do
> 
> 	timer->delay(..);
> 
> instead?

Basically a default timer_null structure? Sure that can be done (I think
others have suggested this as well, but I've just not had the time to
get around to it). I'll see if I can scratch that out quickly and
resend. 

thanks for the feedback!
-john



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