From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nicolas.ferre@atmel.com (Nicolas Ferre) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:36:44 +0100 Subject: PLEASE FIX: lack of trailing , on structure initializers In-Reply-To: <20111105164855.GG12913@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20111105164855.GG12913@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <4EB7C2CC.40106@atmel.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 11/05/2011 05:48 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux : > The lack of trailing ','s on initializers is causing me quite an amount > of grief while trying to prepare the set of patches for arch_reset. > It's really annoying to add a new initializer at the end of a structure, > not notice the lack of trailing ',' on the last entry, and then end up > having to rework the patches because of that. E.g.: > > arch/arm/mach-orion5x/mv2120-setup.c:238: error: request for member ?restart? in something not a structure or union > > caused by the lack of trailing comma for the .fixup initializer on the > preceding line. > > We have around 778 of these in arch/arm, and it's about time that number > started to be reduced. This will cause a lot of conflicts, so the > earlier it can be done in the cycle (and merged into each platform tree) > the less (hopefully) it'll conflict with other work that goes through > the appropriate maintainer tree. Hi Russell, We have a dozen of those missing trailing ',' in mach-at91. But as you mentioned in your other email, we may need to wait for another change in the concerned files to fix this. Am I right? So we keep this in mind... Best regards, -- Nicolas Ferre