On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 22:07:34 +0200, Kees Cook wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> wrote: > > 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 <pe...@perex.cz> > >> Cc: Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.com> > >> Cc: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com> > >> Cc: alsa-de...@alsa-project.org > >> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.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. > > At the end of these conversions, the old init_timer() and > setup_timer() APIs will be removed, which would break anything still > trying to use it (obviously). But if sound/oss/* is _already_ > unbuildable, then sure, this is fine by me to leave out. :)
I see a few still remaining users of setup_timer() in sound/*. Do you already have conversion patches? They are all trivial, so I can cook up in minutes, too. thanks, Takashi
