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

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Message-ID: <20221114141435.46c80788@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:14:35 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] timers: Add timer_shutdown_sync() to be called
 before freeing timers

On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 19:53:37 +0100
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:

> I can see that. TBH, this was just my last line of defense to not being
> insulting, because I was seriously grumpy about this whole thing and
> even more so when I discovered that it was just hastily cobbled together
> and then sold as the panacea for solving driver teardown issues.
> 
> You surely can do better and you very well know how kernel development
> works.
> 
> I'm sorry if I offended you. I might have to adjust my expectations.

No problem. I'm also under a lot of stress lately and not getting enough
rest. Which is a reason I was a bit slack in my development.

Now that I'm back home and not working from a hotel room, I'm a bit more
focused and will not be rushing as much.

Cheers!

-- Steve