From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754417AbcAHJOM (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 04:14:12 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f53.google.com ([74.125.82.53]:33561 "EHLO mail-wm0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753137AbcAHJOA (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 04:14:00 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 10:13:54 +0100 From: Richard Cochran To: John Stultz Cc: Christopher Hall , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jeff Kirsher , "x86@kernel.org" , lkml , intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Stanton, Kevin B" Subject: Re: [RFC v5 1/6] Timekeeping cross timestamp interface for device drivers Message-ID: <20160108091354.GB2344@localhost.localdomain> References: <1451911523-8534-1-git-send-email-christopher.s.hall@intel.com> <1451911523-8534-2-git-send-email-christopher.s.hall@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 05:05:24PM -0800, John Stultz wrote: > Yea. I just feel like lots of structures add extra abstraction that > makes the code harder to learn or re-learn. Not only is one trying to > remember the base types that are being passed around, but you also > have to remember what all the meta-structures are for. Especially for > these two-value structures. FWIW, I had exactly this trouble when reading this series. Thanks, Richard From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Cochran Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 10:13:54 +0100 Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [RFC v5 1/6] Timekeeping cross timestamp interface for device drivers In-Reply-To: References: <1451911523-8534-1-git-send-email-christopher.s.hall@intel.com> <1451911523-8534-2-git-send-email-christopher.s.hall@intel.com> Message-ID: <20160108091354.GB2344@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org List-ID: On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 05:05:24PM -0800, John Stultz wrote: > Yea. I just feel like lots of structures add extra abstraction that > makes the code harder to learn or re-learn. Not only is one trying to > remember the base types that are being passed around, but you also > have to remember what all the meta-structures are for. Especially for > these two-value structures. FWIW, I had exactly this trouble when reading this series. Thanks, Richard