On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:27 AM, Kees Cook [off-list ref] wrote:

Drop the arguments from the macro and adjust all callers with the
following script:

  perl -pi -e 's/DEFINE_TIMER\((.*), 0, 0\);/DEFINE_TIMER($1);/g;' \
    $(git grep DEFINE_TIMER | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u | grep -v timer.h)

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # for m68k parts

I was slightly worried about this large-scale rework, since it might conflict
with new users of DEFINE_TIMER(), causing bisection problems.

However, a little research showed that we have only added two users
in the past five years, so this is not a real concern.

for arch/arm, drivers/char and overall:

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>