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From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-2.5.54_delay-cleanup_A0
Date: 07 Jan 2003 19:48:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1041997716.1050.76.camel@w-jstultz2.beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301071927190.1892-100000@home.transmeta.com>

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 19:29, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Wouldn't it be saner to initialize the timer to something that can at 
> least do estimated loops, and then just unconditionally do
> 
> 	timer->delay(..);
> 
> instead?

Basically a default timer_null structure? Sure that can be done (I think
others have suggested this as well, but I've just not had the time to
get around to it). I'll see if I can scratch that out quickly and
resend. 

thanks for the feedback!
-john




  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-08  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-08  2:46 john stultz
2003-01-08  3:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-08  3:48   ` john stultz [this message]
2003-01-12 14:27 ` Pavel Machek

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