Re: drivers/wireless: ath: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Fri Oct 27 2017 - 05:19:12 EST


Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to
> all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
> to pass the timer pointer explicitly.
>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

There were some conflicts but luckily 3-way merge was able to automatically
solve them. But please do check the patch from my pending branch:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/commit/?h=master-pending&id=dd08329d31a4c150f8aab8274033901baaf3e923

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10023835/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches