Re: [PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu May 18 2017 - 04:41:45 EST


On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:24:48AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > b) give the union a name (breaks any reference to timer_list->func in C code):
> >
> > + union {
> > + void (*func)(struct timer_list *timer);
> > + void (*function)(unsigned long);
> > + } u;
>
> I'll look into that, as it seems a lot safer, and places outside
> the timer code shouldn't really touch it (although I bet they do,
> so more fixes for this series..)

Meh. All the old init_timer users set function directly, so
I guess we need to use the other approach.