From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936894AbWLDOWX (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 09:22:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936896AbWLDOWX (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 09:22:23 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([217.147.92.249]:60171 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936894AbWLDOWX (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 09:22:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 14:22:10 +0000 From: Russell King To: David Howells Cc: Pavel Machek , Roman Zippel , Al Viro , Thomas Gleixner , Matthew Wilcox , Linus Torvalds , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety Message-ID: <20061204142209.GB24634@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: David Howells , Pavel Machek , Roman Zippel , Al Viro , Thomas Gleixner , Matthew Wilcox , Linus Torvalds , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20061202184035.GL3078@ftp.linux.org.uk> <200612022243.58348.zippel@linux-m68k.org> <20061202215941.GN3078@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20061202224018.GO3078@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20061203102108.GA1724@elf.ucw.cz> <26864.1165230869@redhat.com> <29346.1165237409@redhat.com> <9737.1165241841@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9737.1165241841@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 02:17:21PM +0000, David Howells wrote: > Russell King wrote: > > > > You've now got four copies of struct timer_list, but only one handler. > > > > > actioned.> > > I was merely correcting your assumption of what premise I was thinking of. > You thought of something unnecessarily complex. That's entirely a matter of opinion. Which is _precisely_ why I made that particular statement which you don't appear to understand. Let me make it again in a different way: This is all mere hand waving. We can all dream up scenarios where something works better than something else. Until someone actually sits down and works it out it's just useless talk and random opinions, nothing more. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: