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From: Tim Hockin <thockin@sun.com>
To: Studierende der Universitaet des Saarlandes 
	<masp0008@stud.uni-sb.de>,
	groudier@club-internet.fr, alan@redhat.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  sym53c8xx timer rework
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:21:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B4B47C5.F176C3C2@sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B4ACF6B.5F194E54@stud.uni-saarland.de>

Studierende der Universitaet des Saarlandes wrote:

> > +       NCR_LOCK_NCB(np, flags);
> > +       del_timer(&np->timer);
> > +       NCR_UNLOCK_NCB(np, flags);
> 
> I'm only reading the diff, but this change looks wrong.
> The simplest solution is del_timer_sync() instead of
> LOCK;del_timer;UNLOCK.

I didn't even realize there was a del_timer_sync().  That does what is
needed.  3 lines become 1, I guess.

Thanks, CC:ed to Gerard and crew.

-- 
Tim Hockin
Systems Software Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances
thockin@sun.com

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-10 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-10  9:48 [PATCH] sym53c8xx timer rework Studierende der Universitaet des Saarlandes
2001-07-10 18:21 ` Tim Hockin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-10  7:19 Tim Hockin
2001-07-10 19:00 ` Gérard Roudier

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