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authorCorey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>2006-06-28 04:26:53 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-28 14:59:05 -0700
commit409035e088ce15178c5aa157cab493bc22096b6d (patch)
treed5dd6e7f83a0b23b714516da5f246f724453bd17 /drivers/char
parent4ac4360b95496f4137ee19b54e9f7dfa3946984d (diff)
[PATCH] IPMI: tidy msghandler timer
Tidy up the timer usage in the IPMI driver. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
index 83ed6ae466a..ad26f4b997c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
@@ -3738,11 +3738,8 @@ static int ipmi_init_msghandler(void)
proc_ipmi_root->owner = THIS_MODULE;
#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
- init_timer(&ipmi_timer);
- ipmi_timer.data = 0;
- ipmi_timer.function = ipmi_timeout;
- ipmi_timer.expires = jiffies + IPMI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES;
- add_timer(&ipmi_timer);
+ setup_timer(&ipmi_timer, ipmi_timeout, 0);
+ mod_timer(&ipmi_timer, jiffies + IPMI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list, &panic_block);