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From: Tobias DiPasquale <codeslinger@gmail.com>
Subject: proper method of deleting recurring timer?
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:20:00 -0400
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Hi all,

I've seen a number of different recommendations for the proper method
of deleting a recurring timer. I am wondering what the actual proper
way is and I figured that this list is the place to find that out. I
have a timer that recurs while a module is loaded every x seconds
until the module is unloaded. What is the proper way to remove said
timer upon module unload?

Currently, I'm doing this:

[...]
del_timer_sync( &timer);
if (timer_pending( &timer))
        del_timer( &timer);
[...]

The timer is installed and started off during the module init()
function. Thanks in advance!

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[ Tobias DiPasquale ]
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