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

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Sun, 1 Nov 1998 23:50:10 +0100 (CET)


On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Gerard Roudier wrote:

>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. ;-)

It seems that you don' t know how the timer code works. Study before
complain. You have said _nothing_. If you don' t want to study send be a
bug report.

Andrea Arcangeli

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