[PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers

[Christoph Hellwig]

> b) give the union a name (breaks any reference to timer_list->func in C code):
> 
>  +       union {
>  +               void            (*func)(struct timer_list *timer);
>  +               void            (*function)(unsigned long);
>  +       } u;

I'll look into that, as it seems a lot safer, and places outside
the timer code shouldn't really touch it (although I bet they do,
so more fixes for this series..)

> I fear this breaks lockdep output, which turns the name of
> the timer into a string that gets printed later. It should work
> when these are macros, or a macro wrapping an inline function
> like __init_timer is.

Ok, I'll fix it up.  Although this macro mess isn't really readable
at all.