Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932665AbVLBBIM (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:08:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932691AbVLBBIL (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:08:11 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:49563 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932665AbVLBBIK (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:08:10 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 17:06:42 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Kyle Moffett Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, hch@infradead.org, mingo@elte.hu, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, ray-gmail@madrabbit.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, george@mvista.com, johnstul@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [patch 00/43] ktimer reworked Message-Id: <20051201170642.71803873.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <537CE371-F9A9-4255-A3B0-9DBDAD82591B@mac.com> References: <1133395019.32542.443.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <23CA09D3-4C11-4A4B-A5C6-3C38FA9C203D@mac.com> <2c0942db0512010822x1ae20622obf224ce9728e83f8@mail.gmail.com> <20051201165144.GC31551@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051201122455.4546d1da.akpm@osdl.org> <20051201211933.GA25142@elte.hu> <20051201135139.3d1c10df.akpm@osdl.org> <7D53372C-E138-4336-883F-A674BBBB09AA@mac.com> <20051201221553.GA19135@infradead.org> <1133481739.10478.54.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <537CE371-F9A9-4255-A3B0-9DBDAD82591B@mac.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1328 Lines: 29 Kyle Moffett 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/