Re: [PATCH] scsi: qla2xxx: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

[Bart Van Assche]

On Tue, 2017-10-31 at 18:03 +0000, Madhani, Himanshu wrote:
> On Oct 31, 2017, at 8:49 AM, Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> > 
> > Cavium folks: Please verify!
> 
> Iâve checked on my setup and i am seeing regression with this patch applied. 
> 
> Driver load locks up the system with this patch applied. 
> 
> NACK 

That feedback is not very helpful ...

Anyway, what kernel source tree did you use in your testing? I may be able to
free up some time to look into this myself.

Bart.