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

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> 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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