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

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:24:48AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 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..)

Meh.  All the old init_timer users set function directly, so
I guess we need to use the other approach.