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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Remain Calm: Designated initializer patches for 2.5
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:47:07 +0200
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On Thursday 18 July 2002 05:22, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 	I just sent about 40 reasonable-size patches through the
> Trivial Patch Monkey to Linus: these patches replace the (deprecated)
> "foo: " designated initializers with the ISO-C ".foo =" initializers.
> GCC has understood both since forever, but the kernel took a wrong
> bet, and we're better off setting a good example for 2.6 before we
> start getting about 10,000 warnings.

Next time, remember to bet on the ugliest looking one ;-)

-- 
Daniel
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