Re: [patch 00/21] hrtimer - High-resolution timer subsystem

[Ingo Molnar]

* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> >so i believe that:
> >
> >	- 'struct ktimer', 'struct ktimeout'
> >
> >is in theory superior naming, compared to:
> >
> >	- 'struct ptimer', 'struct timer_list'
> >
> 
> Just curious -- why the "k" thing?

yeah. 'struct timer' and 'struct timeout' is even better. I tried it on 
real code and sometimes it looked a bit funny: often we have a 'timeout' 
parameter somewhere that is a scalar or a timeval/timespec. So at least 
for variable names it was useful to have it in this form:

	struct timeout *ktimeout;

	struct timer *ktimer;

otherwise it looked OK. This is also in line with most other 'object 
names' we have in the kernel: struct inode, struct dentry.

	Ingo
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