Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety

Russell King <[email protected]> wrote:

> I assume you wanted to delete "data" ?

Yes.

> Your premise is two timer_lists which use one common handler.
> 
> 	struct foo {
> 		struct timer_list timer1;
> 		strucr timer_list timer2;
> 	};

That's not what I was thinking of.  I was thinking of something much simpler:

	struct foo {
		struct timer_list timer;
	};


	...
		struct foo *a = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo), GFP_KERNEL);
		a->timer.fn = do_foo_timer;
	...
		struct foo *b = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo), GFP_KERNEL);
		b->timer.fn = do_foo_timer;
	...
		struct foo *c = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo), GFP_KERNEL);
		c->timer.fn = do_foo_timer;
	...
		struct foo *d = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo), GFP_KERNEL);
		d->timer.fn = do_foo_timer;
	...

You've now got four copies of struct timer_list, but only one handler.

David
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