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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: sas: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:56:43 -0400
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Kees,

> 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 requires
> adding a pointer to hold the timer's target task, as there isn't a
> link back from slow_task.

Would be good to get John and Jack to take a closer look...

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering