linux-kernel - Re: [patch 13/26] posix-timers: Rename do_schedule_next

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Message-ID: <20170602070022.GA21694@infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 2 Jun 2017 00:00:23 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 13/26] posix-timers: Rename do_schedule_next_timer

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 10:50:42PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 31 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:15:46PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > That function is a misnomer. Rename it with a proper prefix to
> > > posixtimer_rearm().
> > 
> > Please also move it out of asm-generic/siginfo.h as it's implemented
> > and used in generic code only, and there is no arch override at all.
> > 
> > In fact it seems like asm-generic/siginfo.h should probably just move
> > to include/linux/signinfo.h.
> 
> That's one convoluted mess.

Yes.  I tried to give it some love 2 days ago but my first attempt
failed badly.  Here is what I'm at now, but it's not quite ready for
prime time:

   http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/siginfo