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Re: tx_timeout and timer serialisation

To: becker@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: tx_timeout and timer serialisation
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 00:31:21 -0700
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005200311540.825-100000@vaio.greennet> (message from Donald Becker on Sat, 20 May 2000 03:25:53 -0400 (EDT))
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005200311540.825-100000@vaio.greennet>
Sender: owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
   Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 03:25:53 -0400 (EDT)
   From: Donald Becker <becker@xxxxxxxxx>

   Backwards compatibility is pointlessly made more painful by such a
   change.  It's almost as bad as changing a interface function's
   argument count without changing the name, or changing the element
   order of a structure that is commonly statically initialized.

del_timer deschedules a timer, no more, no less.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@xxxxxxxxxx

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