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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	geoff@linux.jf.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kenneth.w.chen@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Performance of del_timer_sync
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 22:32:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040511203236.GA6726@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040511132619.7a4fb4cb.akpm@osdl.org>


* Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> Nah, that's ungrammatical.  del_timer_singleshot means "delete a timer
> in a single-shot manner".
> 
> We have:
> 
> "add a timer"
> "modify a timer"
> "delete a timer"
> "delete a timer synchronously"
> "delete a single-shot timer"

hm, indeed. Miraculously, the existing timer API names are correct
grammatically, so we might as well go for del_single_shot_timer() ...

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-11 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-10 22:16 [RFC] [PATCH] Performance of del_timer_sync Geoff Gustafson
2004-05-11  7:45 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-11 18:36   ` Geoff Gustafson
2004-05-11 19:11     ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-11 19:23       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-05-11 19:28         ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-11 19:30           ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-11 19:58       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-11 20:11         ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-11 20:19           ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-11 20:26             ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-11 20:32               ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2004-05-11 20:55                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-11 20:57                   ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-11 21:01                     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-05-11 20:26           ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-11 20:27           ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-05-11 20:30             ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-11 20:45               ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-05-11 20:38             ` Ingo Molnar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-11 22:46 Geoff Gustafson
     [not found] <40A152A8.4080104@linux.intel.com>
2004-05-11 23:03 ` Andrew Morton

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