Author: Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@gmail.com> Use the timer API function setup_timer instead of structure field assignments to initialize a timer. A simplified version of the Coccinelle semantic patch that performs this transformation is as follows: @change@ expression e1, e2, e3, e4, a, b; @@ -init_timer(&e1); +setup_timer(&e1, a, b); … when != a = e2 when != …