RE: [RFC] [PATCH] Performance of del_timer_sync

From: Chen, Kenneth W
Date: Tue May 11 2004 - 16:02:35 EST


>>>> Ingo Molnar wrote on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:57 PM
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> 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().
>
> yeah. Ken's got a license to name ;)

Cool, feeling pretty good here. I'm going to stick with andrew's original
name, and add a big fat comments for the new function ;-)

- Ken


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