Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 16:22:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 16:22:25 -0500 Received: from a089148.adsl.hansenet.de ([213.191.89.148]:20609 "EHLO ds666.starfleet") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 16:22:24 -0500 Message-ID: <3E7E282E.7070008@portrix.net> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 22:33:34 +0100 From: Jan Dittmer Organization: portrix.net GmbH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030305 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dominik@kubla.de, greg@kroah.com Subject: Re: i2c-via686a driver References: <3E7E0B37.5060505@portrix.net> <20030323202743.A11150@infradead.org> <200303232136.10089.dominik@kubla.de> <20030323204810.A11421@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20030323204810.A11421@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 762 Lines: 21 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. > I just copied the cvs driver without changing more than necessary. Shouldn't this be up to the lm_sensors folk? Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/