* Nick Piggin <[email protected]> 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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