Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760143AbWLCWyr (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 17:54:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760141AbWLCWyq (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 17:54:46 -0500 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:413 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760136AbWLCWyq (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 17:54:46 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 23:52:54 +0100 (CET) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Pavel Machek 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 In-Reply-To: <20061203210113.GF9876@elf.ucw.cz> Message-ID: 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> <20061203210113.GF9876@elf.ucw.cz> 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: 662 Lines: 19 Hi, On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Pavel Machek wrote: > > 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. It's a matter of perspective, a bit more type checking would be nice, but breaking the API just for that is ugly as well. Unless there is a bad need for it, I don't think it's worth it... 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/