From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: scottwood@freescale.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] introduce macro spin_event_timeout()
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 15:55:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49FB61CA.9040305@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D823E17E-3066-45D5-A33D-539FA0883B55@kernel.crashing.org>
Kumar Gala wrote:
> I wouldn't call it spin_event_timeout as its a bit too generic of a
> name for something that is arch specific.
Well, I'm hoping it won't be arch-specific forever. I'd like to see
other architectures implement something like tb_ticks_per_usec. I'm
only tackling PowerPC for now.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-01 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-27 19:05 [PATCH v6] introduce macro spin_event_timeout() Timur Tabi
2009-04-29 22:48 ` Timur Tabi
2009-05-01 20:51 ` Kumar Gala
2009-05-01 20:55 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2009-05-01 20:56 ` Scott Wood
2009-05-01 21:33 ` Sean MacLennan
2009-05-01 21:44 ` Timur Tabi
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