From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@canonical.com, corbet@lwn.net,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] timer: Added usleep[_range] timer
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:26:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C50A08A.6070108@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100728142334.a0453c20.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 7/28/2010 2:23 PM, Andrew Morton wrote
, it would never have happened.
>> In that case, it would pus
>> h me in the direction of only providing
>> usleep_range, and thus forcing people to think about it that way;
>> leave slack decisions to people who know what tolerances are acceptable.
>>
> Well, I _think_ that would be a good approach. I'm 45%/55% on that one
> and would be interested in other opinions ;)
>
>
for new interfaces I'd really like a "range only" option... make people
think.
And passing in a 0 is easy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-28 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-28 19:33 [PATCH v2 0/4] timer: Added usleep[_range] timer Patrick Pannuto
2010-07-28 19:33 ` [PATCH 1/4] " Patrick Pannuto
2010-07-28 20:23 ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-28 20:47 ` Patrick Pannuto
2010-07-28 20:58 ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-28 21:04 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-07-28 21:11 ` Patrick Pannuto
2010-07-28 21:22 ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-28 21:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-07-28 21:05 ` Patrick Pannuto
2010-07-28 21:23 ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-28 21:26 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2010-07-28 19:33 ` [PATCH 2/4] Documentation: Add timers/timers-howto.txt Patrick Pannuto
2010-07-28 19:33 ` [PATCH 3/4] Checkpatch: prefer usleep over udelay Patrick Pannuto
2010-07-28 20:24 ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-28 19:33 ` [PATCH 4/4] Checkpatch: warn about unexpectedly long msleep's Patrick Pannuto
2010-07-28 20:24 ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-28 20:48 ` Patrick Pannuto
2010-08-03 19:12 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] timer: Added usleep[_range] timer Pavel Machek
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