[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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
index 83ed6ae466a5..ad26f4b997c5 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);