Re: timer: permit statically-declared work with deferrable timers

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Phil Carmody wrote:

> 
> Arjen, Thomas,
> 
> This patch is an enabler which hopefully can lead to simplification of code 
> elsewhere. For example, it would turn Artem's patch I refer to in the commit
> message (8eab945c5616fc984e97b922d6a2559be93f39a1) into just:
> 
> -static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(cache_cleaner, do_cache_clean);
> +static DECLARE_DEFERRED_WORK(cache_cleaner, do_cache_clean);
> 
> rather than the creation of a __init helper that required touching 3 files.
> 
> I'm prepared to follow up with such simplifying patches if it's considered
> worthwhile.

If it simplies stuff, no objections from my side. The patch looks
reasonable enough.

How many (ab)users will it clean up ?

Thanks,

	tglx
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