Re: [patch 00/43] ktimer reworked

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 01, 2005, at 19:02, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:15 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >> Heh, in my dumb non-native speaker mind I'd expectit the other way  
> >> around, as in a timeout is expected to time out :)  and a timer is  
> >> expect to happen, as in say the timer the tells you your breakfast  
> >> egg is ready.
> >
> > Which is perfectly the point Kyle made.
> 
> In any case, the real important note here is that the two are pretty  
> different concepts, ones that lend themselves to _very_ different  
> optimizations, that are currently lumped together.  The very fact  
> that some developers easily get them confused says that we need a  
> good clean implementation of both distinct APIs with comparable  
> documentation, including a bunch of good example usages.
> 

Or just leave the timer_lists as they are.

If I'm going to spend the next two years buried in helpful
s/timer_list/ktimeout/ patches then there'd better be a darn good reason
for the rename, thanks.  I don't see one.