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From: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] atm: replace del_timer by del_timer_sync
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:19:16 -0700
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> It seems this timer rearms itself, so this patch wont be enough I fear.
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Does that matter? It seems del_timer_sync() may be intended to work
despite this (i.e. timer will not fire after call to this function).
My earlier attempt to fix a similar issue in sch_red.c resulted in
this explanation.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg256410.html

Vijay