Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/13] hrtimer: rename ns to nsec | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:23:09 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 02:09 +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Currently we have two abbreviation for nanosecond, although ns may be > more correct, nsec is already used rather widely (e.g. tv_nsec). > > Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
No strong feelings either way, but in general we want to keep names short. There are other places in the kernel already using the _ns variant, also we have the same with ms / msec.
We can certainly discuss a consolidation of all that, but its not in the set of "minimally needed for 2.6.16".
tglx
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