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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Discussion list for development of the IVTV driver
	<ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org>
Cc: video4linux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] [PATCH] cx18: convert driver to video_ioctl2() (Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 18:08:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080603220828.GE30842@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080603182052.1080408e@gaivota>

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 06:20:52PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > Yeah, they can go.  I left them in as an aid for double checking that I
> > didn't forget any callbacks that needed to be implemented.
> 
> Please don't do that. All static vars that have a value 0 or NULL shouldn't be
> initialized, since this will eat some space inside the module.

The compiler is smarter than that. Besides which 4 bytes will make no difference
whether it is data or bss given 4K disk block sizes 8)

It is coding style not to do it but it isn't a bad idea to leave them in if
they make something explicitly clear IMHO.


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-03 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-22 21:37 [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL Alan Cox
2008-05-22 21:37 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23  2:08 ` Andy Walls
2008-05-23  2:08   ` Andy Walls
2008-05-23  6:16   ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-23  6:16     ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-23  6:28     ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-23  6:28       ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-26 16:39     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 16:39       ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-23  9:09   ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23  9:09     ` Alan Cox
2008-05-26 16:34     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 16:34       ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 16:46       ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-26 16:46         ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-26 21:14         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 21:14           ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-06-01  2:34         ` [PATCH] cx18: convert driver to video_ioctl2() (Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL) Andy Walls
2008-06-01 10:15           ` Hans Verkuil
2008-06-01 19:01             ` Andy Walls
2008-06-03 21:20               ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-06-03 22:08                 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-06-04  0:44                   ` [ivtv-devel] " Andy Walls
2008-06-04 10:02                     ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 13:56 ` [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-23 15:39   ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 15:39     ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 16:09     ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-23 18:58       ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 18:58         ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 19:05 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-23 19:05   ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-25 23:46 ` Mike Isely
2008-05-25 23:46   ` Mike Isely
2008-05-26 16:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 16:59   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 20:23   ` Alan Cox
2008-05-26 20:23     ` Alan Cox
2008-05-26 21:10     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 21:10       ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 22:01       ` Alan Cox
2008-05-26 22:01         ` Alan Cox
2008-05-27 13:10         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 13:10           ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 15:41           ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-27 16:31             ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 16:31               ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 16:37               ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-27 18:59                 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 18:59                   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 19:26                   ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-27 19:26                     ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-27 21:00                     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 21:00                       ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 21:22                       ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-27 21:22                         ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-27 23:48                       ` Andy Walls
2008-05-27 23:48                         ` Andy Walls
2008-05-28  0:46                         ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-28  0:46                           ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-28  2:37                           ` Andy Walls
2008-05-28  2:37                             ` Andy Walls
2008-05-28  2:47                             ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-28  2:47                               ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-28 23:30                               ` Andy Walls
2008-05-28  8:34                             ` Alan Cox
2008-05-28  8:34                               ` Alan Cox
2008-05-28  6:13                           ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-28  6:13                             ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-27 19:50                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-27 20:24                     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 20:24                       ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 18:14               ` Alan Cox
2008-05-27 18:14                 ` Alan Cox

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