Re: [patch V2 12/17] timers: Silently ignore timers with a NULL function

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On Wed, Nov 23 2022 at 12:06, Anna-Maria Behnsen wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2022, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> Add debug_assert_init() instead of the WARN_ON_ONCE(!timer->function)
>> checks so that debug objects can warn about non-initialized timers.
>
> Could you expand this paragraph, so that is is not missleading when a
> reader is not aware of the details of debug objects? Otherwise it seems to
> the reader that debug objects will warn when timer->function == NULL.
>
>   The warning of debug objects does not cover the original
>   WARN_ON_ONCE(!timer->function). It warns when timer was not initialized
>   using timer_setup[_on_stack]() or via DEFINE_TIMER().

Good point.



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