Use setup_timer() instead of init_timer() to simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangt...@gmail.com> --- drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c b/drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c index bf43b5d..1f30b7e 100644 --- a/drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c +++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c @@ -393,9 +393,7 @@ static int img_ascii_lcd_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) ctx->scroll_rate = HZ / 2; /* initialise a timer for scrolling the message */ - init_timer(&ctx->timer); - ctx->timer.function = img_ascii_lcd_scroll; - ctx->timer.data = (unsigned long)ctx; + setup_timer(&ctx->timer, img_ascii_lcd_scroll, (unsigned long)ctx); platform_set_drvdata(pdev, ctx); -- 2.9.3