From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:19:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:19:54 -0400 Received: from samba.sourceforge.net ([198.186.203.85]:41642 "HELO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:19:53 -0400 From: Rusty Russell To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: viro@math.psu.edu, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, Matija Nalis , aia21@cantab.net, al@alarsen.net, asun@cobaltnet.com, bfennema@falcon.csc.calpoly.edu, dave@trylinux.com, braam@clusterfs.com, chaffee@cs.berkeley.edu, dwmw2@infradead.org, eric@andante.org, hch@infradead.org, hpa@zytor.com, jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu, jakub@redhat.com, jffs-dev@axis.com, mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, quinlan@transmeta.com, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com, Chris Mason , rgooch@atnf.csiro.au, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, shaggy@austin.ibm.com, tigran@veritas.com, urban@teststation.com, vandrove@vc.cvut.cz, vl@kki.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org, Art Haas Subject: Remain Calm: Designated initializer patches for 2.5 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:22:23 +1000 Message-Id: <20020718032331.5A36644A8@lists.samba.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, I just sent about 40 reasonable-size patches through the Trivial Patch Monkey to Linus: these patches replace the (deprecated) "foo: " designated initializers with the ISO-C ".foo =" initializers. GCC has understood both since forever, but the kernel took a wrong bet, and we're better off setting a good example for 2.6 before we start getting about 10,000 warnings. So far, Art Haas has done all the fs code, and will presumably be working through the other code on dir at a time. Just a heads-up, Rusty. -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.