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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add unschedule_delayed_work to the workqueue API
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James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote:
>
> I'm in the process of moving some of our scsi timers which do more work
> than just a few lines of code into schedule_work() instead.  The problem
> is that the workqueue API lacks the equivalent of del_timer_sync(). 

The usual way of doing this is:

	cancel_delayed_work(...);
	flush_workqueue(...);