Re: [patch 28/28] posix clocks: Introduce dynamic clocks

[Richard Cochran]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 01:49:47PM -0800, john stultz wrote:
> I sort of worry about the naming collision with the term posix-clock, as
> this is just one type of posix clock (I suspect most folks think of a
> posix clock as the clockid passed to the existing posix api).
> 
> Could we maybe use posix-dynclock or posix-fdclock or something? I know
> its already been changed from clkdev, so sorry for being finicky here
> and not catching this earlier.

A rose by any other name...

I agree that naming (even internal APIs) is important and have no
objection to changing the name. I did spend a bit of time considering
various alternatives, and now I'm out of ideas.

So, please do change the name if you have a better one.

Thanks,
Richard
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