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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.4.22-pre1][NET] timer cleanups
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 21:11:37 +0530
Vinay K Nallamothu <vinay-rc@naturesoft.net> wrote:

> This patch does the following timer code cleanup:
>
> 1. Change del_timer/add_timer to mod_timer
> 2. Use static timer initialisation wherever applicable

I'm not accepting this. In particular, the ip6_flowlabel.c
change is a bad idea because the code remains racey. Someone
submitted a similar move to mod_timer() for ip6_flowlabel
earlier this week so see my comments there about what needs
to occur to fix the code properly.

Just blindly doing these kinds of conversions to mod_timer()
is foolhardy. You need to apply some brains to it to make
sure you really are getting rid of whatever potential races
exist in the code. And in the ip6_flowlabel.c case things are
as buggy as they were before.

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