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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Performance of del_timer_sync
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> 
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> > Nah, that's ungrammatical.  del_timer_singleshot means "delete a timer
> > in a single-shot manner".
> > 
> > We have:
> > 
> > "add a timer"
> > "modify a timer"
> > "delete a timer"
> > "delete a timer synchronously"
> > "delete a single-shot timer"
> 
> hm, indeed. Miraculously, the existing timer API names are correct
> grammatically, so we might as well go for del_single_shot_timer() ...
> 

<anal>del_singleshot_timer_sync</anal>

I vote we leave it up to Ken.  But please, not del_timer_kenneth().