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Subject: Re: [PATCH] timer clean up for i2c-keywest.c
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 09:03, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> This patch changes i2c-keywest.c to use mod_timer instead of a
> two-line sequence to compute .expires and call add_timer in 3 places.
> Without this patch I get a BUG from time to time in add_timer.

Hrm... I did a different fix for this problem in 2.4, patch
against 2.5 coming in a few minutes...

Ben.