linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET] timer: clean up initializers and implement irqsafe timers

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Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2012 01:46:14 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	mingo@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, peterz@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] timer: clean up initializers and implement irqsafe
 timers

Tejun,

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:12:01AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Just for the record. The thread evolved from here:
> > 
> >   <tj>    * mod_delayed_work() can't be used from IRQ handlers.
> > 
> > My answer was:
> > 
> >   <tglx>  This function does not exist. So what?
> > 
> > Which was completely appropriate as this function does not exist
> > though you used it as a primary argument for your patches.
> 
> I read it as "so, what's wrong with not having mod_delayed_work()?",
> so the response.

Oh well. Your interpretation of "So what?" starts to stress my
patience.

> It exists in wq/for-3.7 and cancel_delayed_work() (the one without
> preceding __) + queue() users have been already converted.
> 
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1334546

Do you really expect that I follow all of kernel dev posts within a
day of returning from a two weeks vacation?

Thanks,

	tglx
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