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Subject: Re: [tip:timers/core] timerfd: Allow timers to be cancelled when
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On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 17:17 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> If you think that needs to change, please discuss/provide
> alternatives, which we can check if they sufficiently work for us,
> like we did with this patch.

Since this is a published interface that's not the way things work,
first thing is to revert this to avoid us getting stuck with this crap.
> 
> But please stop rhetorically asking me if I want a slower kernel, and
> chance your tone. That will get us nowhere. 

Ah, we've got our patch and we'll stick to it no matter what the
consequences, very good attitude that.



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