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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 18:34:32 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace timer_bh with tasklet
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   From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
   Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:39:59 -0700

   At this point I am only aware of one place in the kernel where timers and 
   other BH code interact, that being deliver_to_old_ones() in net/core/dev.c.

Are you absolutely sure?  What about serial drivers and the TTY layer?
Have you audited all of that code too?  What about SCSI_BH?  What
about IMMEDIATE_BH, TQUEUE_BH?  Do they interact non-trivially with
timers too?

Alexey is right, there needs to be a real audit here before this
patch may be considered.
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