Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759469AbWLCVBW (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 16:01:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760097AbWLCVBV (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 16:01:21 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:23013 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758509AbWLCVBU (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 16:01:20 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 22:01:13 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Roman Zippel Cc: Russell King , Al Viro , Thomas Gleixner , Matthew Wilcox , Linus Torvalds , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety Message-ID: <20061203210113.GF9876@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1165084076.24604.56.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061202184035.GL3078@ftp.linux.org.uk> <200612022243.58348.zippel@linux-m68k.org> <20061202215941.GN3078@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20061202224018.GO3078@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20061203102108.GA1724@elf.ucw.cz> <20061203112706.GA12722@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1177 Lines: 30 On Sun 2006-12-03 16:21:25, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote: > > > I agree with Al, Matthew and Pavel. The current timer stuff is a pita > > and needs fixing, and it seems Al has come up with a good way to do it > > without adding additional crap into every single user of timers. > > What exactly is the pita here? Al only came up with some rather > theoretical problems with no practical relevance. Lack of type-checking in timers is ugly. > > Al - I look forward to your changes. > > I don't. The current API is maybe not perfect, but changing the API for no > practical benefit would be an even bigger pita. I'd rather keep it as is. Al is trying to add type-checking in pretty nice & straightforward manner. Please let him do it. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/