setup_timer

[Mohammed Shafi]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Dave Hylands <dhylands at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi shafi,
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Mohammed Shafi <shafi.kernel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >           can some please explain what does setup_timer does.
> > thanks in advance,
>
> It initializes the timer structure and stores the callback function
> which will be called when the timer expires.
>

Dave thanks a lot for your reply and your simple answer cleared my doubts
completely!
I was looking at a protocol stack code where this function is used in few
places and now I am able to understand it.
thanks once again!

>
> Dave Hylands
>
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