Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: hci_bcm4377: Use named initializers for pci_device_id array

["Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub)" <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>]

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On Mon, May 04, 2026 at 06:09:40PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) wrote:
> Initializing a struct using list initializers is hard to read, compared
> to that using named initializers is more ideomatic. Convert the macro
> used to assign values in the driver's pci_device_id array accordingly.
> 
> This change doesn't introduce any changes to the compiled array on an
> x86 and an arm64 build.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>
> ---
> Hello,
> 
> this is a preparing change for making struct pci_device_id::driver_data an
> anonymous union (similar to
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1776579304.git.u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com/).
> This requires named initializers for .driver_data. But even without that
> this is a nice cleanup making the macro better readable.
> 
> Gcc is happy with simplifying the assignment further using
> PCI_VDEVICE(BROADCOM, BCM ## id ## _DEVICE_ID), but this is a bit fishy
> because PCI_VDEVICE also assigns .class and .class_mask (using list
> initializers), so I didn't convert that.

In the meantime I learned that doing that would break W=1 builds, so it
was a good choice to not go that path.

> Once all pci_device_id use
> named initializers, the two zeros can be dropped from PCI_VDEVICE and
> this entry simplified accordingly.

Is this patch still on someone's radar? Ideally for application in time
for 7.2-rc1?

Best regards
Uwe

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