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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:54:51 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jan Dittmer <j.dittmer@portrix.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Dominik Kubla <dominik@kubla.de>,
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Subject: Re: i2c-via686a driver
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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
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