Re: [PATCH] ip2: avoid add_timer() with pending timer

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:49:55 +0900
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> add_timer() is not suppose to be called when the timer is pending.
> ip2 driver attempts to avoid that condition by setting and resetting
> a flag (TimerOn) in timer function. But there is some gap between
> add_timer() and setting TimerOn.
> 
> This patch fix this problem by using mod_timer() and remove TimerOn
> which has been unnecessary by this change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael H. Warfield <mhw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Queued for ttydev tree

Alan
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