Re: [PATCH v2] block/aoe: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Oct 17 2017 - 12:21:56 EST


On 10/17/2017 10:09 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 10/16/2017 06:03 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 7:19 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 10/05/2017 05:13 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>>> In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to
>>>> all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
>>>> to pass the timer pointer explicitly.
>>>
>>> Applied to for-4.15/timer
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just wanted to check what your timer plans were for merging this
>> into -next (I'm doing rebasing to find out which maintainers I need to
>> resend patches to, and I noticed block hasn't appeared in -next, but I
>> know you've pulled patches...)
>
> It should be in for-next, since I wrote that email. It's in my
> for-4.15/timer branch, which is also merged into my for-next branch
> (which is the one that Stephen pulls).

Just pulled in for-next, and it seems to contain what it should.
If you see missing block related timer patches in for-next, then
they haven't been applied to my tree yet.

axboe@dell:[.]home/axboe/git/linux-next $ git log drivers/block/aoe/
commit a79c192c7cdb639ad1b059cedbf3dfa68427a170
Author: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Oct 5 16:13:54 2017 -0700

block/aoe: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
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Jens Axboe