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Date:	Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:22:42 +0100
From:	Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@...-lyon.org>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [IPv6] [trivial] convert to mod_timer

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 01:42:35PM +0100, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> Convert addrconf_verify to mod_timer

after some reflexion, this patch is probably wrong, since
addrconf_verify is called from outside the timer too.

sorry,

Benoit
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@...-lyon.org>
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> index 101e0e7..5d0e404 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> @@ -2922,8 +2943,6 @@ static void addrconf_verify(unsigned long foo)
>         now = jiffies;
>         next = now + ADDR_CHECK_FREQUENCY;
> 
> -       del_timer(&addr_chk_timer);
> -
>         for (i=0; i < IN6_ADDR_HSIZE; i++) {
> 
>  restart:
> @@ -3013,8 +3032,7 @@ restart:
>                 read_unlock(&addrconf_hash_lock);
>         }
> 
> -       addr_chk_timer.expires = time_before(next, jiffies + HZ) ? jiffies + HZ : next;
> -       add_timer(&addr_chk_timer);
> +       mod_timer(&addr_chk_timer, time_before(next, jiffies + HZ) ? jiffies + HZ : next);
>         spin_unlock_bh(&addrconf_verify_lock);
>  }
> 
> 
> -- 
> :wq

-- 
:wq
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