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Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 17:18:27 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] FDDI: defza: Sanitise the reset safety timer
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On Wed, 13 May 2026 16:29:37 +0100 (BST) Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  I guess it got lost in the lengthy commit description:

Indeed :) Thanks for re-explaining 

> > [...]  For the transition 
> > to the uninitialised state switch to timer_delete_sync_try() instead, so 
> > that a timer isn't deleted that's just been rearmed by the timer handler 
> > and needs to watch for the device to come out of reset again (again, an 
> > SMP scenario only).