Hello, while I see the point of a timer task force, I am not sure I am of great help rewriting it. I have no clue how it works besides a bit experience with the API. But if I can help, sure. Are there wiki pages for the other task forces?
Raphael > On Jan 22, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Oleg Hahm <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Raphael! > >> I think enabling vtimer to await an absolute point in time would be useful, >> something like this [1]. Otherwise you end up subtracting the current time >> and adding it again in vtimer_set. > > I think something like this could indeed be helpful. However, I think we > should try to collect all the different requirements for the timer system > somewhere and think about a redesign. Not only that certain features are hard > or even impossible to achieve with the current hwtimer/vtimer/RTC concept, but > also the API could be improved and simplified quite a bit - not speaking about > all the bugs and races in the current implementation. > > All in all, I think it's quite urgent to establish a task force for the timer > system in a similar fashion like we do for the network stack or OTA, for > example. Would you be interested to participate in such a task force and maybe > start already by setting up a wiki page or similar to collect the different > requirements? > > Cheers, > Oleg > -- > /* > * We used to try various strange things. Let's not. > */ > linux-2.2.16/fs/buffer.c > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
