Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030212AbVIAPs2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Sep 2005 11:48:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030213AbVIAPs2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Sep 2005 11:48:28 -0400 Received: from users.ccur.com ([208.248.32.211]:163 "EHLO gamx.iccur.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030212AbVIAPs1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Sep 2005 11:48:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 11:47:53 -0400 From: Joe Korty To: Roman Zippel Cc: "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" , akpm@osdl.org, george@mvista.com, johnstul@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification Message-ID: <20050901154753.GA3433@tsunami.ccur.com> Reply-To: joe.korty@ccur.com References: <20050901135049.GB1753@tsunami.ccur.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 758 Lines: 19 On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 04:32:49PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Joe Korty wrote: > > Kernel time sucks. It is just a single clock, it may not have > > the attributes of the clock that the user really wished to use. > > Wrong. The kernel time is simple and effective for almost all users. > We are talking about _timeouts_ here, what fancy "attributes" does that > need that are just not overkill? The name should be changed from 'struct timeout' to something like 'struct timeevent'. Joe - 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/