Re: [patch 00/21] hrtimer - High-resolution timer subsystem
From: Nick Piggin
Date: Wed Dec 07 2005 - 06:08:49 EST
Ingo Molnar wrote:
* 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
Oh good, glad you think so :)
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
Sure... hmm, the names timeout and timer themselves have something
vagely wrong about them, but I can't quite place my finger on it,
not a real worry though...
Maybe it is that timeout is an end result, but timer is a mechanism.
So maybe it should be 'struct interval', 'struct timeout';
or 'struct timer', 'struct timeout_timer'.
But I don't know really, it isn't a big deal.
Nick
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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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