From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932126AbWBMNWp (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:22:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932427AbWBMNWp (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:22:45 -0500 Received: from 213-239-205-147.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.205.147]:43400 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932126AbWBMNWo (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:22:44 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/13] hrtimer: rename ns to nsec From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: Roman Zippel Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:23:09 +0100 Message-Id: <1139836990.2480.473.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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