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In message <50D1E0D8.9070209@FreeBSD.org>, Alexander Motin writes:

>It would be late to change this after committing. I would definitely 
>like it to be done earlier to not redo all the tests, but I think we 
>could convert callout and eventtimers code to 32.32 format in several 
>days. The only two questions are: do we really want it (won't there be 
>any reasons to regret about it) and how do we want it to look?

As much as it pains me to raise this point, we would regret it
if we did not use 32.32, because Linux already went that way.

As much as there is to be said for doing things right, we should
also try to avoid pointless incompatibilities which will make it
needlessly hard for people to move code, particular device drivers
forth and back.


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