Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750923AbVJQTsa (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:48:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750980AbVJQTs3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:48:29 -0400 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:50082 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750923AbVJQTs3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:48:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:48:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Tim Bird cc: Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , tglx@linutronix.de, george@mvista.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com, paulmck@us.ibm.com, hch@infradead.org, oleg@tv-sign.ru Subject: Re: [PATCH] ktimers subsystem 2.6.14-rc2-kt5 In-Reply-To: <4353F936.3090406@am.sony.com> Message-ID: References: <4353F936.3090406@am.sony.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 940 Lines: 24 Hi, On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Tim Bird wrote: > Maybe for a more experienced kernel person such as > yourself, this distinction make sense. But > "process timer" and "kernel timer" don't carry much > semantic value for me. They seem to convey an > arbitrary expectation of usage patterns. Maybe > they match the current usage patterns in the kernel, > but I'd prefer naming based on functionality or > behaviour of the API. Let's say you want to implement a watchdog timer for a driver, which runs about every second to do something. Now if you have the choice between "timer API" vs. "timeout API" and "kernel timer" vs. "process timer", what would you choose based on the name? bye, Roman - 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/