[newbie] timer in module

sebastien person (sebastien.person@sycomore.fr)
Tue, 22 May 2001 12:53:51 +0200


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Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 11:39:30 +0200
From: sebastien person <sebastien.person@sycomore.fr>
To: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
Subject: Re: [newbie] timer in module (fwd)

Le Mon, 21 May 2001 19:35:25 -0400 (EDT)
Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net> a ecrit :

>
> this was my first post on this thread.
>
> I did miss one call and that was add_timer(), after that you can call
> mod_timer to change the next time the timer fires.

ok, to using mod_timer we must hace already used one time add_timer ?

> Let me know if you need anything else.

So I've succeed to use a timer but with the struct timer_list.
I've found some example in rubini's book [oreilly], but I'm not sure
if the declaration of timer must be global ?
e.g If I do a timer call in a local function, whith a timer_list struct
local, and when the scheduler handle the timer interrupt although I am
already out of local function... what's happen (oops ?)

And also I want to ensure that I can put whatever I want in the data
field.

thanks for all your advices.

>
> Bart.
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