Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list

Rusty Russell
2001-01-30T01:23:25Z

> In message <3A74451F.DA29FD17@uow.edu.au> you write:
> > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0005.3/0269.html
> >
> > A lot of the timer deletion races are hard to fix because of
> > the deadlock problem.

Double take: we *did* fix the problems with del_timer_sync(). We
should probably have renamed del_timer to del_time_async and make
everyone fix their code though. The `text vanishing under timer in
module' problem is solved by the pending module cleanup for 2.5.

Rusty.
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