On Mon, 2017-10-23 at 12:23 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 23 Oct 2017, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > On Sun, 2017-10-22 at 23:40 +0200, Anna-Maria Gleixner wrote: > > > From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Switch the timer to HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT, which executed the timer > > > callback in softirq context and remove the hrtimer_tasklet. > > I can't build as its part of the whole hrtimer rework series. I guess you mean you *can* build it? Surely you're introducing the new HR timer modes in some patch that I didn't see? :-) > > > + hrtimer_init(&data->beacon_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, > > > + HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_SOFT); > > Sure, though it does not matter in that case. Will fix that up. Right. Then again, why even pass it to init() and start()? Can you start without going through start()? johannes