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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v5 1/6] Timekeeping cross timestamp interface for device
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 10:13:54 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 05:05:24PM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> Yea. I just feel like lots of structures add extra abstraction that
> makes the code harder to learn or re-learn. Not only is one trying to
> remember the base types that are being passed around, but you also
> have to remember what all the meta-structures are for. Especially for
> these two-value structures.

FWIW, I had exactly this trouble when reading this series.

Thanks,
Richard