Re: [patch] scalable timers implementation, 2.4.16, 2.5.0

[Andrew Morton]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> PS.  Also would be nice to #define del_timer del_timer_sync, and have a
>      del_timer_async for those (very few) cases who really want this.

That could cause very subtle deadlocks.   I'd prefer to do:

#define del_timer_async	del_timer

and to then put out the word that del_timer is a deprecated
interface and code should use either del_timer_sync or
del_timer_async.

That way, we can grep through the tree and see which code
has not yet been reviewed/fixed.

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