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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2022 12:50:31 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] timers: Add timer_shutdown_sync() to be called
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On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:16:31 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> And honestly, for that to happen I'd be perfectly happy with something like
> 
>   #define timer_shutdown(t) del_timer(t)
>   #define timer_shutdown_sync(t) del_timer_sync(t)
> 
> (obviously with the patches that first remove the existing
> 'timer_shutdown()' uses first). That wouldn't introduce the *new*
> semantics, but it would at least allow the different subsystems to do
> the obvious cases, and let the networking people wonder about the much
> less obvious ones.

I can create the above series, if Thomas is OK with this approach.

-- Steve