Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271287AbTHMAYa (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:24:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271289AbTHMAYa (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:24:30 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:54412 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271287AbTHMAYY (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:24:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:23:44 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Dave Jones , jgarzik@pobox.com, davem@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitor-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: C99 Initialisers Message-ID: <20030813002344.GA2797@kroah.com> References: <20030812020226.GA4688@zip.com.au> <1060654733.684.267.camel@localhost> <20030812023936.GE3169@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030812053826.GA1488@kroah.com> <20030812112729.GF3169@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030812180158.GA1416@kroah.com> <20030812235324.GA12953@redhat.com> <20030813000841.GP10015@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030813000841.GP10015@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1250 Lines: 37 On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:08:41AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:53:24AM +0100, Dave Jones wrote: > > What would be *really* nice, would be the ability to do something > > to the effect of.. Yeah, that would be cool to do. 2.7 :) > While we're off in never-never land, it'd be nice to specify default > values for struct initialisers. eg, something like: Yeah, I've wanted that for a while too. Don't really know how to get the compiler to do that though :( > Erm, hang on a second ... Since when are PCI IDs 32-bit? What is this > ridiculous bloat? You can't even argue that this makes things pack > better since this packs equally well: Yeah, it was just a port from 2.4 which says: struct pci_device_id { unsigned int vendor, device; unsigned int subvendor, subdevice; unsigned int class, class_mask; unsigned long driver_data; }; We could probably change it now if you really want to. Don't know if it will save much space though. thanks, greg k-h - 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/