linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] timers: Add timer_shutdown_sync() to be called before freeing timers

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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:54:48 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] timers: Add timer_shutdown_sync() to be called
 before freeing timers

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 9:49 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
>
> I can create the above series, if Thomas is OK with this approach.

Note that I'd definitely be more comfortable with a "real"
implementation, but only if people are happy with it.

Of course, the alternative is to just keep it entirely as one single
separate branch that does all of this, and _not_ have subsystems merge
things on their own at all. The only complicated cases I've seen (but
maybe I just missed some) were networking, and they could do their
stuff later.

So I guess I don't care _that_ deeply, and if Thomas is happier with
that "keep ti separate" thing, I won't object.

                 Linus