Re: [PATCH 03/13] hrtimer: rename ns to nsec

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 02:09 +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Currently we have two abbreviation for nanosecond, although ns may be
> more correct, nsec is already used rather widely (e.g. tv_nsec).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <[email protected]>

No strong feelings either way, but in general we want to keep names
short. There are other places in the kernel already using the _ns
variant, also we have the same with ms / msec.

We can certainly discuss a consolidation of all that, but its not in the
set of "minimally needed for 2.6.16".

	tglx


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