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Date:   Wed, 6 Apr 2022 12:46:45 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2022 09:36:10 -0700
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:

> > So we have a chicken verses egg issue here?
> >   
> 
> Almost looks like it, unless I am missing something. Maybe some flag
> is needed to prevent the timer handling code from queuing into the
> destroyed workqueue, or the workqueue handler from updating the timer.

That's exactly what I was thinking. I do not know all the code here. I
could try to write a patch, but I may likely miss something.

-- Steve