linux-kernel - Re: [patch 08/15] timers: Rename del_timer_sync() to timer_delete

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Message-ID: <20221121155215.62a9b41b@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:52:15 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
        Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
        Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@...il.com>,
        linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 08/15] timers: Rename del_timer_sync() to
 timer_delete_sync()

On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:28:46 +0100 (CET)
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:

> The timer related functions do not have a strict timer_ prefixed namespace
> which is really annoying.
> 
> Rename del_timer_sync() to timer_delete_sync() and provide del_timer_sync()
> as a wrapper. Document that del_timer_sync() is not for new code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> ---
>  include/linux/timer.h |   15 ++++++++++++++-
>  kernel/time/timer.c   |   18 +++++++++---------
>  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>

-- Steve