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From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: checkpatch.pl misreporting bugs with array fillings
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:22:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112170122.55827.marek.vasut@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1324080955.331.16.camel@joe2Laptop>

> 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

      reply	other threads:[~2011-12-17  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-16 21:59 checkpatch.pl misreporting bugs with array fillings Marek Vasut
2011-12-16 22:24 ` Andy Whitcroft
2011-12-16 22:31   ` Marek Vasut
2011-12-19 10:13     ` Andy Whitcroft
2011-12-17  0:15 ` Joe Perches
2011-12-17  0:22   ` Marek Vasut [this message]

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