Re: [PATCH] block/aoe: discover_timer: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

From: Ed Cashin
Date: Fri Nov 03 2017 - 21:06:49 EST


On 11/02/2017 07:31 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to
all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
to pass the timer pointer explicitly.

This refactors the discover_timer to remove the needless locking and
state machine used for synchronizing timer death. Using del_timer_sync()
will already do the right thing.

Looks OK to me, thanks.

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Ed