Use the timer API function setup_timer instead of structure field assignments to initialize a timer.
A simplified version of the Coccinelle semantic patch that performs this transformation is as follows: @change@ expression e, func, da; @@ -init_timer (&e); +setup_timer (&e, func, da); -e.data = da; -e.function = func; Signed-off-by: Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1...@gmail.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c index 1c75829..d52639b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c @@ -3125,9 +3125,8 @@ static int mv643xx_eth_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) mib_counters_clear(mp); - init_timer(&mp->mib_counters_timer); - mp->mib_counters_timer.data = (unsigned long)mp; - mp->mib_counters_timer.function = mib_counters_timer_wrapper; + setup_timer(&mp->mib_counters_timer, mib_counters_timer_wrapper, + (unsigned long)mp); mp->mib_counters_timer.expires = jiffies + 30 * HZ; spin_lock_init(&mp->mib_counters_lock); @@ -3136,9 +3135,7 @@ static int mv643xx_eth_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) netif_napi_add(dev, &mp->napi, mv643xx_eth_poll, NAPI_POLL_WEIGHT); - init_timer(&mp->rx_oom); - mp->rx_oom.data = (unsigned long)mp; - mp->rx_oom.function = oom_timer_wrapper; + setup_timer(&mp->rx_oom, oom_timer_wrapper, (unsigned long)mp); res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_IRQ, 0); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/