linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm: gma500: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

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Message-ID: <20171031101835.npsnxjbf5ctlm66k@phenom.ffwll.local>
Date:   Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:18:35 +0100
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.r.jakobsson@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Maling list - DRI developers 
        <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: gma500: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 03:05:29PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:08 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 08:16:09AM -0700, 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: Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.r.jakobsson@...il.com>
> >> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
> >> Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
> >> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> >
> > Do you expect drm folks to apply this, or is this part of a larger refactoring?
> 
> If the drm tree includes -rc3, you can carry these. If you don't want
> to carry these and want the timer tree to carry them, we can do that
> too.

Applied to drm-misc-next for 4.16 (we're way past freeze for 4.15
already).

Thanks, Daniel

> 
> > A notch more context in the commit message would help ...
> 
> Sorry about that, my added context for this go lost in later conversion patches.
> 
> -Kees
> 
> -- 
> Kees Cook
> Pixel Security
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Daniel Vetter
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