Re: arca-1-against-pre-2.1.127-3

Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr)
Sun, 1 Nov 1998 22:37:42 +0100 (MET)


On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> - if( SCset->eh_timeout.expires == 0 )
> + if( SCset->eh_timeout.next == NULL )

You seem to want to add some nice abstractions to timeout handling in
Linux, and this is a good point. But the above is bad spot in my opinion.
Better to fail than to write that.
I like italian spaghetti, but the kernel is not the right place for
preparing such an excellent dish, in my opinion. ;-)

Regards,
Gerard.

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