Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752613AbbKXHZk (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2015 02:25:40 -0500 Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net ([208.91.199.152]:46506 "EHLO bh-25.webhostbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752370AbbKXHZR (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2015 02:25:17 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/8] watchdog: Simplify update_worker To: =?UTF-8?Q?Uwe_Kleine-K=c3=b6nig?= References: <1448248865-21684-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <1448248865-21684-6-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <20151124071333.GE19888@pengutronix.de> Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, Wim Van Sebroeck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Timo Kokkonen , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet From: Guenter Roeck Message-ID: <565410D8.6070508@roeck-us.net> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 23:25:12 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151124071333.GE19888@pengutronix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Authenticated_sender: linux@roeck-us.net X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bh-25.webhostbox.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - roeck-us.net X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: bh-25.webhostbox.net: authenticated_id: linux@roeck-us.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1010 Lines: 31 Hi Uwe, On 11/23/2015 11:13 PM, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 07:21:02PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> Drop 'cancel' parameter; simply cancel worker unconditionally >> if not needed. >> >> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck > > This is a good change, but given that watchdog_update_worker is > introduced in this series it should be squashed accordingly. > As I tried to explain, I didn't squash it because, even though I could not find any trouble with it, I am still not sure if it may cause trouble or not. As such, I found it better to keep it separate to make it easier to revert it _if_, as unlikely as it may be, it should be needed. Ultimately I'd like to get some input from Wim on this. Thanks, Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/