linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sound: oss: waveartist: Convert timers to use timer

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Message-ID: <s5hshe8pcub.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
Date:   Tue, 24 Oct 2017 21:25:48 +0200
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sound: oss: waveartist: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 17:35:21 +0200,
Kees Cook 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: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>
> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> Cc: alsa-devel@...a-project.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

I'll skip this as sound/oss/* is already disabled in recent kernels in
kbuild, and we're going to remove the whole code soon later.


thanks,

Takashi