On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 05:45:07PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > This looks really nice, but what is the long-term plan for the interface? > Do you expect that we will eventually change all 700+ users of timer_list > to the new type, or do we keep both variants around indefinitely to avoid > having to do mass-conversions? I think we should eventually move everyone over, but it might take some time. > If we are going to touch them all in the end, we might want to think > about other changes that could be useful here. The main one I have > in mind would be moving away from 'jiffies + timeout' as the interface, > and instead passing a relative number of milliseconds (or seconds) > into a mod_timer() variant. This is what most drivers want anyway, > and if we have both changes (callback argument and expiration > time) in place, we modernize the API one driver at a time with both > changes at once. Yes, that sounds useful to me as well. As you said it's an independent but somewhat related change. I can add it to my series, but I'll need a suggestions for a good and short name. That already was the hardest part for the setup side :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
