On Sun, 2018-03-04 at 23:57 +0100, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> Use the unsigned long parameters on kernel versions < 4.15 for the
> DEFINE_TIMER callback. This was changed in Linux mainline commit
> 24ed960abf1d ("treewide: Switch DEFINE_TIMER callbacks to struct
> timer_list *")
But before this, we had a macro that could deal with both ways - why
can't we backport using a similar macro, rather than doing a patch?
If we have
static void at76_ledtrig_tx_timerfunc(struct timer_list *unused);
then we should be able to
#define DEFINE_TIMER(x, y) ... (cast)(y)
or something, no?
johannes
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