Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:58:07 -0800 | From | george anzinger <> | Subject | Re: Doubt in Kernel Timers |
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sekhar raja wrote: > > Hi Folks > > I have a doubt in Kernel Timers, Can we delete the > Timer with out adding it to the timer List. > > What do i mean is with out Doing add_timer() can we > use del_timer(). > > If we can not do that, how do we check whether the > particular timer is running or not. > > Your help will be greatly Appreciated, Please CC me > the Answer as i am not Subscribe to the mailing list. > > Thanks in Advance > -Rajasekhar > A quick glance at the source would assure you that YES you can del_timer() at any time. Looking at this code you would discover that the list linkage being NULL indicates that the timer is not active.
Read the SOURCE. -- George george@mvista.com High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/ Real time sched: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtsched/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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