Re: [PATCH v2] isdn/gigaset: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 2:15 AM, David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Kees Cook
>> Sent: 06 October 2017 20:40
> ...
>> I'm in no rush for any specific change. There are about 900 call sites
>> I'm making my way through, about 2/3rd are pretty trivial, and the
>> less obvious is what I've started sending out now, since I expect some
>> will need some more careful review.
>
> Is it worth adding a structure that contains a timer and an extra 'long'
> than can be used to maintain the existing API logic for the 'difficult'
> cases?

I didn't want to have this available in the general case, since I'd
like to get all the conversions actually finished. There are a couple
very special cases that need this, and they have one-off structs that
do this.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security