On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 18:34:07 +0200, Fabien R said: > Hello, > In timer.h of 4.9, struct timer_list contains a field data which is unsigned > long. > In timer.c, call_timer_fn calls the triggered function with data as parameter. > As of 5.0, the field data disappears from struct timer_list and call_timer_fn > is used with a struct timer_list * as parameter. > Is there some info about this change somewhere ?
[/usr/src/linux-next] git log v4.9..v5.0 -- kernel/time/timer.c and reading through finds this: commit 354b46b1a0adda1dd5b7f0bc2a5604cca091be5f Author: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Date: Sun Oct 22 19:15:40 2017 -0700 timer: Switch callback prototype to take struct timer_list * argument Since all callbacks have been converted, we can switch the core prototype to "struct timer_list *" now too. (and several other commits from Kees following that)
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