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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 17:44:01 +0200
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Subject: Re: [tip:timers/core] timerfd: Allow timers to be cancelled when
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To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 17:31, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> 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.

What? That is not merged. Anything that would need fixing can still be
fixed. But I guess you need to do more than just calling it '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.

It's not my patch. I just like its interface very much.

Kay
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