From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/13] hrtimer: rename ns to nsec
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:23:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1139836990.2480.473.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602130209480.23808@scrub.home>
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 02:09 +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Currently we have two abbreviation for nanosecond, although ns may be
> more correct, nsec is already used rather widely (e.g. tv_nsec).
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
No strong feelings either way, but in general we want to keep names
short. There are other places in the kernel already using the _ns
variant, also we have the same with ms / msec.
We can certainly discuss a consolidation of all that, but its not in the
set of "minimally needed for 2.6.16".
tglx
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2006-02-13 1:09 Roman Zippel
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