From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> 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 <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> --- 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)
