Re: [PATCH 1/3] rename cancel_rearming_delayed_work() to cancel_delayed_work_sync()

[Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 07:36:29PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Imho, the current naming of cancel_xxx workqueue functions is very confusing.
> 
> 	cancel_delayed_work()
> 	cancel_rearming_delayed_work()
> 	cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue()	// obsolete
> 
> 	cancel_work_sync()
> 
> This looks as if the first 2 functions differ in "type" of their argument which
> is not true any longer, nowadays the difference is the behaviour.
> 
> The semantics of cancel_rearming_delayed_work(dwork) was changed significantly,
> it doesn't require that dwork rearms itself, and cancels dwork synchronously.
> 
> Rename it to cancel_delayed_work_sync(). This matches cancel_delayed_work() and
> cancel_work_sync(). Re-create cancel_rearming_delayed_work() as a simple inline
> obsolete wrapper, like cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
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