[PATCH] timer initialization cleanup: DEFINE_TIMER
Clean up timer initialization by introducing DEFINE_TIMER a'la
DEFINE_SPINLOCK. Build and boot-tested on x86. A similar patch has been
been in the -RT tree for some time.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/timer.h b/include/linux/timer.h
index 221f81a..3340f3b 100644
--- a/include/linux/timer.h
+++ b/include/linux/timer.h
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@
.magic = TIMER_MAGIC, \
}
+#define DEFINE_TIMER(_name, _function, _expires, _data) \
+ struct timer_list _name = \
+ TIMER_INITIALIZER(_function, _expires, _data)
+
void fastcall init_timer(struct timer_list * timer);
/***