Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Nov 2022 12:50:31 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] timers: Add timer_shutdown_sync() to be called before freeing timers |
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On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:16:31 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> And honestly, for that to happen I'd be perfectly happy with something like > > #define timer_shutdown(t) del_timer(t) > #define timer_shutdown_sync(t) del_timer_sync(t) > > (obviously with the patches that first remove the existing > 'timer_shutdown()' uses first). That wouldn't introduce the *new* > semantics, but it would at least allow the different subsystems to do > the obvious cases, and let the networking people wonder about the much > less obvious ones.
I can create the above series, if Thomas is OK with this approach.
-- Steve
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