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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger-tQ5ms3gMjBLk1uMJSBkQmQ@public•gmane.org>
To: 1432415812-1285-1-git-send-email-Larry.Finger-tQ5ms3gMjBLk1uMJSBkQmQ@public•gmane.org,
	haggai.eran-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public•gmane.org
Cc: gregkh-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r@public•gmane.org,
	netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public•gmane.org,
	devel-gWbeCf7V1WCQmaza687I9mD2FQJk+8+b@public•gmane.org,
	linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public•gmane.org,
	Stable <stable-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public•gmane.org>,
	Arek Rusniak <arek.rusi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public•gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8712u: Fix kernel warning for improper call of del_timer_sync()
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 10:59:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <556346EF.8000804@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150525044250.GA3385@sudip-PC>

On 05/24/2015 11:42 PM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
>> I haven't been using kernel v4.1 so I haven't seen this warning, but looking
>> at the code it seems to originate from the two recent patches to remove
>> _cancel_timer and _cancel_timer_ex. I see that there's another patch in lkml [1]
>> that changes del_timer_sync back to del_timer in more places. Perhaps it
>> could prevent other warnings like this in the future.
>
> _cancel_timer and _cancel_timer_ex both were internally using del_timer,
> and the issue was reported in bugzilla. I have given the reference of the
> bugzilla in my patch in lkml.
> I have changed the reference of del_timer_sync to del_timer in all places
> which were in interrupt context, in some places it was not removed as
> those were not in interrupt context.

Why did you not Cc the maintainers?? That is why file MAINTAINERS exists.

Was your patch sent to Greg?

Larry


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  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-25 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-25  4:42 [PATCH] staging: r8712u: Fix kernel warning for improper call of del_timer_sync() Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-25 15:59 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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2015-05-23 21:16 Larry Finger
2015-05-24 19:03 ` Haggai Eran
2015-05-25  0:11   ` Larry Finger
2015-05-25  9:17     ` Dan Carpenter
     [not found]       ` <CAK-LDb+1WscLTFw=NDY=_aUOGw72a4wRsqCU-1N+KJ11k15S5w@mail.gmail.com>
2015-05-25 10:12         ` Dan Carpenter
2015-05-25 15:52         ` Larry Finger
2015-05-25 17:37       ` Joe Perches
2015-05-26  4:46         ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-26  4:55           ` Joe Perches
2015-05-26  5:02             ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-26  5:07               ` Joe Perches
2015-05-26  5:30                 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-26 15:31                   ` Larry Finger
2015-05-26 14:14                 ` Greg KH
2015-05-26 14:48                   ` Joe Perches
2015-05-26 16:35                     ` Greg KH
2015-05-26 17:06                       ` Joe Perches
2015-05-26 20:25                         ` Dan Carpenter
2015-05-26 20:30                         ` Greg KH
2015-05-26 20:09                       ` Dan Carpenter
2015-05-26 15:48                   ` Dan Carpenter
2015-05-26 16:40                     ` Larry Finger
2015-05-25 16:02 ` Larry Finger
2015-05-31  2:53   ` Greg KH
     [not found]     ` <20150531025347.GA8074-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-31  2:54       ` Greg KH

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