[PATCH] timer initialization cleanup: DEFINE_TIMER

Clean up timer initialization by introducing DEFINE_TIMER a'la
DEFINE_SPINLOCK.  Build and boot-tested on x86.  A similar patch has been
been in the -RT tree for some time.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/timer.h b/include/linux/timer.h
index 221f81ac2002..3340f3bd135d 100644
--- a/include/linux/timer.h
+++ b/include/linux/timer.h
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ extern struct timer_base_s __init_timer_base;
                 .magic = TIMER_MAGIC,                           \
         }
 
+#define DEFINE_TIMER(_name, _function, _expires, _data)         \
+        struct timer_list _name =                               \
+                TIMER_INITIALIZER(_function, _expires, _data)
+
 void fastcall init_timer(struct timer_list * timer);
 
 /***