From: Ray Lee <madrabbit@gmail.com>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, mingo@elte.hu,
george@mvista.com, johnstul@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 00/43] ktimer reworked
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:22:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2c0942db0512010822x1ae20622obf224ce9728e83f8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0512011352590.1609@scrub.home>
On 12/1/05, Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> The human language is a bit more complicated than this (at least English
> and related languages). Depending on the context a word can have different
> meanings, e.g. if you ask an athlete what "timeout" means, you'll get a
> different answer than you would get from an engineer.
Actually, no you won't. The athlete will say "A timeout? Something out
of the ordinary happened, and coach wants me to go to the sidelines to
talk." Timeouts are unexpected and exceptional, whether you're an
athlete or a piece of code. On the other hand, they have a timer that
everyone *expects* to expire at the end of the quarter or game.
Ray, who is both an athlete and a native English speaker, who thinks
the naming is the clearest of anything to come across this list in
ages.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-01 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-30 23:56 Thomas Gleixner
2005-12-01 0:41 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-01 2:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-01 3:32 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-01 3:57 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-01 15:40 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-01 16:22 ` Ray Lee [this message]
2005-12-01 16:51 ` Russell King
2005-12-01 17:44 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-01 19:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-01 21:11 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-01 22:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-02 0:29 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-02 0:41 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-02 0:58 ` john stultz
2005-12-02 1:01 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-02 1:09 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-02 1:24 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-02 1:47 ` David Lang
2005-12-02 14:43 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-02 15:41 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-07 9:35 ` James Bruce
2005-12-07 12:34 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-07 14:15 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-07 15:03 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-07 14:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-08 15:43 ` James Bruce
2005-12-02 2:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-04 1:28 ` Andrew James Wade
2005-12-05 19:40 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-06 2:46 ` Andrew James Wade
2005-12-01 20:24 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-01 21:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-01 21:51 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-01 22:13 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-01 22:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-02 0:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-12-02 0:36 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-02 1:06 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-02 14:42 ` John Stoffel
2005-12-02 2:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-02 0:46 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-01 16:52 ` Roman Zippel
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