On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > Use del_timer_sync(). It guarantees that when it returns, the timer
> > will be stopped and the timer routine will no longer be running on any
> > CPU.
> >
> Even if the timer re-enables itself, are you sure?
Last time I looked at the source code, that's what it did. I'll look
again... Yep, it still does. It checks to see if the timer routine is
currently running; if so then it waits a little while and tries again.
Alan Stern
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