linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes

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Message-ID: <s5hvdtteap4.wl%tiwai@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:32:07 +0100
From:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@...tkopp.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes

At Mon, 8 Dec 2008 07:25:56 -0800 (PST),
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
> >
> > So your functionality reduction unfortunately get's a NACK from me ... sorry.
> 
> Quite frankly, your NAK doesn't matter.
> 
> We've had too many bugs in hrtimers. They _will_ get simplified. 

A clean up is a good thing, but I really hope such an API-change patch
will be tested on linux-next long enough.
The previous hrtimer-API change was merged into the middle 2.6.28
without any build-testing on linux-next.


thanks,

Takashi
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