Re: [PATCH v2] staging: greybus: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

[Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:44:22AM +0000, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> 
> 
> On 30/10/17 11:38, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:35:50AM +0000, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> >> On 30/10/17 11:32, Johan Hovold wrote:
> >>> The right thing to do here is to respin your patch from last year which
> >>> converts the loopback driver to use the timeout handling in greybus
> >>> core.
> >>
> >> Actually I wasn't clear if you wanted to to that yourself aswell as the
> >> rest if it.
> >>
> >> But sure I can do that conversion, it's on my list.
> > 
> > IIRC it was basically done. Just some odd locking that could now also be
> > removed.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Johan
> > 
> 
> I think once Kees' change is applied to operation.c and we convert the 
> async stuff to operation.c's callbacks there ought to be no use of 
> timers, linked lists of operations.

That's correct.

> I'll probably need at least a day to look at that, so it'll be the 
> weekend before I can really allocate time.

Cool. I'm quite sure I just rebased your loopback conversion patch on my
core timeout handling and used that to test the core implementation, so
it should be straight forward.

Thanks,
Johan