From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757578AbYAXU7r (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:59:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755778AbYAXU7k (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:59:40 -0500 Received: from tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.74]:47263 "EHLO tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755835AbYAXU7i (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:59:38 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah4FAHCLmEdMQWYq/2dsb2JhbACBV61r Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:54:34 -0500 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 07/26] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h (updated) Message-ID: <20080124205434.GC31333@Krystal> References: <20080124202706.250598537@polymtl.ca> <20080124203335.082459062@polymtl.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 15:46:45 up 82 days, 1:52, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.14 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Add initialization of an array, which needs brackets that would pollute kernel code, to kernel.h. It is used to declare arguments passed as function parameters such as: text_poke(addr, INIT_ARRAY(unsigned char, 0xf0, len), len); Changelog : - [len] -> [] - Remove whitespaces. - Fixed Jan's suggestion which was not checkpatch.pl-safe. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers CC: Jan Engelhardt --- include/linux/kernel.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6-lttng.mm/include/linux/kernel.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-lttng.mm.orig/include/linux/kernel.h 2008-01-24 15:53:04.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6-lttng.mm/include/linux/kernel.h 2008-01-24 15:53:25.000000000 -0500 @@ -423,4 +423,6 @@ struct sysinfo { #define NUMA_BUILD 0 #endif +#define INIT_ARRAY(type, val, len) ((type[]) {[0 ... (len)-1] = (val)}) + #endif -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68