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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	johnstul@us.ibm.com, davidel@xmailserver.org, virtuoso@slind.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, chris.friesen@genband.com,
	kirill@shutemov.name, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:timers/core] timerfd: Allow timers to be cancelled when clock was set
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 17:44:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi==fti+0ABXscjRCT5JUnfy0eH63g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305127885.2914.241.camel@laptop>

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 17:31, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 17:17 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>>
>> If you think that needs to change, please discuss/provide
>> alternatives, which we can check if they sufficiently work for us,
>> like we did with this patch.
>
> Since this is a published interface that's not the way things work,
> first thing is to revert this to avoid us getting stuck with this crap.

What? That is not merged. Anything that would need fixing can still be
fixed. But I guess you need to do more than just calling it 'crap'.

>> But please stop rhetorically asking me if I want a slower kernel, and
>> chance your tone. That will get us nowhere.
>
> Ah, we've got our patch and we'll stick to it no matter what the
> consequences,

> very good attitude that.

It's not my patch. I just like its interface very much.

Kay

      reply	other threads:[~2011-05-11 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <tip-99ee5315dac6211e972fa3f23bcc9a0343ff58c4@git.kernel.org>
2011-05-11 10:23 ` [tip:timers/core] timerfd: Allow timers to be cancelled when clock was set Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-11 11:58   ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-11 13:45     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-11 13:52       ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-11 14:01         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-11 14:22           ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-11 14:30             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-11 14:32               ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-11 14:48                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-11 14:53                   ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-11 15:11                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-11 15:17                       ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-11 15:31                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-11 15:44                           ` Kay Sievers [this message]

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