Re: checkpatch.pl misreporting bugs with array fillings

[Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>]

> On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 22:59 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > static const unsigned char pci_irq_swizzle[2][PCI_MAX_DEVICES] = {
> > 
> >         {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 27, 27, [9 ... PCI_MAX_DEVICES - 1] = 0 },
> >         {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 29, 29, [9 ... PCI_MAX_DEVICES - 1] = 0 },
> > 
> > };
> 
> True.
> 
> Andy will probably figure it out.
> He's the maintainer.
> 
> Still, in this case all the 0's are unnecessary.
> I'd probably write that code as:
> 
> static const unsigned char pci_irq_swizzle[2][PCI_MAX_DEVICES] = {
> 	{ [7] = 27, [8] = 27 },
> 	{ [7] = 29, [8] = 29 },
> };

I suspect this is some remnant of ancient code where the people writing it were 
not sure if the memory under this is all-zeroes. (or the section this lands in 
wasn't zeroed-out)

M