>"Adam J. Richter" wrote:
>>
>> The is a small change to struct timer in pre7-4. Instead of
>> each timer having "prev" and "next" links, management of the doubly
>> linked list is handled with a struct "list", which contains the
>> "next" and "prev" fields. I am assuming that the semanitics of
>> things like list.next == NULL are the same as the old next == NULL
>> semantics, and so on. On that assumption, here is a patch that adjusts
>> the rest of the kernel to the change that appeared in parts of pre7-4,
>> so that the whole kernel compiles, at least on x86 (we build with
>> every driver turned on, almost all as modules).
>Agree with Yoann, this is completely wrong. :/
>Take a look at Ingo's post on the subject, or perhaps just look at the
>pre7-4 code and observe how the other timer fixes were made.
[...]
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Yoann was not saying that it was completely wrong. He just suggested
a very small change that effected only one file.
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