Hello, Rusty Russell wrote: > There are three possibilities: (1) force everyone to use void *, (2) force > everyone to be type-correct, (3) allow both with some tricks. Currently > we're on (1). For kthread, with only dozens of users, I chose (2) (very > simple, easy to understand). I think for widespread things like timer and > interrupt handlers, I think (3) is the right way to go. Yeah, during transition, we definitely want (3). > I wanted to get this patch out there and see what the reaction was. I can > do timers next, if that's going to add fuel to the discussion. I think you successfully got a very small sample of possible reactions. Jeff vetoing it (and for good reasons) and me a bit more positive but not quite sold. Yeah, I think we need a good flame war to determine our heading and converting timer shouldn't take too much of your time, right? Thanks. -- tejun _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
