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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jan Dittmer <j.dittmer@portrix.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Dominik Kubla <dominik@kubla.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i2c-via686a driver
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:54:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030325035451.GG11874@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E7E2963.4070302@portrix.net>

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 10:38:43PM +0100, Jan Dittmer wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:36:10PM +0100, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> >
> >>Why? It's a valid C99 feature and since the kernel already uses C99 
> >>initializers it won't compile with compilers that choke on C99 comments 
> >>anyway.
> >
> >
> >Because there's a strong preference for traditional C style in the kernel.
> >typedefs are also a valid C feature and we try to avoid them.
> >
> Anyway, here is a corrected version.

Oops, one other thing.  The pci_device_id structure should be
initialized by using the .field = method, not the way the driver is
currently.

Oh, and one patch that adds the Kconfig, Makefile, and driver to the
tree would be great.

thanks again,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-25  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-23 19:29 i2c-via686a driver Jan Dittmer
2003-03-23 20:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-23 20:36   ` Dominik Kubla
2003-03-23 20:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-23 21:33       ` Jan Dittmer
2003-03-23 21:41         ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-23 21:38       ` Jan Dittmer
2003-03-25  3:53         ` Greg KH
2003-03-25  3:54         ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-03-25  9:12           ` Jan Dittmer
2003-03-25 17:10             ` Greg KH
2003-03-24  1:35 ` loop's kernel_thread dave young
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-23 21:52 i2c-via686a driver Adam J. Richter

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