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Date:   Wed, 23 Nov 2022 10:45:41 -0800
From:   Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.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 V2 13/17] timers: Split [try_to_]del_timer[_sync]() to
 prepare for shutdown mode



On 11/23/2022 9:05 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22 2022 at 15:04, Jacob Keller wrote:
>> On 11/22/2022 9:45 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> +int try_to_del_timer_sync(struct timer_list *timer)
>>> +{
>>> +	return __try_to_del_timer_sync(timer);
>>> +}
>>>    EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_to_del_timer_sync);
>>>    
>>
>>
>> Its a bit odd to me that some patches refactor and replace functions
>> with new variants all under timer_* namespace, but then we've left some
>> of them available without that.
>>
>> Any reasoning behind this? I guess "try_*" is pretty clear and unlikely
>> to get stolen by other code..?
> 
> Kinda. I renamed del_timer*() because that's the ones which we want to
> substitute with timer_shutdown*() where possible and reasonable.
> 
> A larger timer namespace cleanup is subject to a follow up series.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>          tglx

Yep thats what I figured once I got to the end of the series. Thanks!

Regards,
Jake