Re: short description of timer.c/timer.h related changes in pre7-2,3

• Next message: Nigel Jacob: "Re: Memory limitations in Linux."
• Previous message: Alexander Viro: "Re: Linus: [PATCH] (for 2.3.99pre6) audit_ids system calls"
• In reply to: Ingo Molnar: "short description of timer.c/timer.h related changes in pre7-2,3"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Tue, 2 May 2000, Miles Lane wrote:
> > fbcon.c: In function `cursor_timer_handler':
> > fbcon.c:240: structure has no member named `next'
> > fbcon.c:240: structure has no member named `prev'

> (so the fix in your fbcon.c case is to use init_timer() instead of
> explicit initialization of the timer structure.)

The fbcon code shouldn't need to call init_timer where it zeroes the
next/prev members in the above example. The initial static
initialization should be sufficient given the existing code usages of
the timer... (e.g. my patch to fbcon which is in pre7-3)

        Jeff

-- 
Jeff Garzik              | Nothing cures insomnia like the
Building 1024            | realization that it's time to get up.
MandrakeSoft, Inc.       |        -- random fortune
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

• Next message: Nigel Jacob: "Re: Memory limitations in Linux."
• Previous message: Alexander Viro: "Re: Linus: [PATCH] (for 2.3.99pre6) audit_ids system calls"
• In reply to: Ingo Molnar: "short description of timer.c/timer.h related changes in pre7-2,3"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun May 07 2000 - 21:00:12 EST