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Re: Confusion with apparently unused variable

Partha Pal wrote:
> In timer.c , in the run_timer_list function, there are
> two variables declared : run_timer_list_running and
> queued. I am confused as to how these variables are
> used ?

APMU
run_timer_list_running is a global list_head which
is used by internal_add_timer() to see if run_timer_list()
is invoking the callback routines from the timer list.
While this is being done no new timers can be added.

though in later kernels (2.5.56) things seem to be different.

Abhishek
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