> to be honest, the scenario describe really smells of broken locking, in
> fact it really sounds like it wants to use spinlocks instead
For polling and timer based code its often simpler to do
del_timer_sync(&my_timer);
FrobStuff
add_timer(&my_timer);
especially if "FrobStuff" is likely to change when you next need to poll.
And don't forget regular polling is a good way to really annoy laptop
users as it burns power
Alan
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