On Fri, 19 May 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
> I just noticed this thread, and has del_timer_sync been mentioned yet?
> That is what should be used to make sure the timer is done in 2.3.x,
> unless something else prevents it's usage (locking conflict).
Yes, it was used as an example of badness.
"Something broke with an interface. It should have been obvious that it
broke, if for no other reason than a new function had to be created that
did what the old function used to do."
The new interface/semantics should have been named del_timer_async(), with
del_timer() being the synchronous version.
Given the questionable semantics of the _async() version, I doubt that
there would have been much of a demand to use it.
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.
Donald Becker becker@xxxxxxxxx
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