From: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>

Use del_timer_sync to ensure that the timer is stopped on all CPUs before
the driver exists.

This change was suggested by Thomas Gleixner

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@r@
declarer name module_exit;
identifier ex;
@@

module_exit(ex);

@@
identifier r.ex;
@@

ex(...) {
  <...
- del_timer
+ del_timer_sync
    (...)
  ...>
}
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>

---
Not tested.

 arch/mips/lasat/picvue_proc.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/lasat/picvue_proc.c b/arch/mips/lasat/picvue_proc.c
index 638c5db..2bcd839 100644
--- a/arch/mips/lasat/picvue_proc.c
+++ b/arch/mips/lasat/picvue_proc.c
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ static void pvc_proc_cleanup(void)
        remove_proc_entry("scroll", pvc_display_dir);
        remove_proc_entry(DISPLAY_DIR_NAME, NULL);
 
-       del_timer(&timer);
+       del_timer_sync(&timer);
 }
 
 static int __init pvc_proc_init(void)

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