The device is about to vanish. So we need to make sure that the timer is completely stopped and the callback is not running on another CPU. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Chas Williams Cc: atm Cc: netdev --- drivers/atm/firestream.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: tip/drivers/atm/firestream.c =================================================================== --- tip.orig/drivers/atm/firestream.c +++ tip/drivers/atm/firestream.c @@ -2000,7 +2000,7 @@ static void firestream_remove_one(struct fs_dprintk (FS_DEBUG_CLEANUP, "Freeing irq%d.\n", dev->irq); free_irq (dev->irq, dev); - del_timer (&dev->timer); + del_timer_sync (&dev->timer); atm_dev_deregister(dev->atm_dev); free_queue (dev, &dev->hp_txq); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/