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 e1, e2, e3, e4, a, b; @@ -init_timer(&e1); +setup_timer(&e1, a, b); ... when != a = e2 when != b = e3 -e1.data = b; ... when != a = e4 -e1.function = a; Signed-off-by: Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1...@gmail.com> --- drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c b/drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c index 1cc6ca8..85cfa4f 100644 --- a/drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c +++ b/drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c @@ -2264,7 +2264,7 @@ static int capidrv_addcontr(u16 contr, struct capi_profile *profp) return -1; } card->owner = THIS_MODULE; - init_timer(&card->listentimer); + setup_timer(&card->listentimer, listentimerfunc, (unsigned long)card); strcpy(card->name, id); card->contrnr = contr; card->nbchan = profp->nbchannel; @@ -2331,8 +2331,6 @@ static int capidrv_addcontr(u16 contr, struct capi_profile *profp) card->cipmask = 0x1FFF03FF; /* any */ card->cipmask2 = 0; - card->listentimer.data = (unsigned long)card; - card->listentimer.function = listentimerfunc; send_listen(card); mod_timer(&card->listentimer, jiffies + 60 * HZ); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html