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Date:   Thu, 29 Jul 2021 07:56:27 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     dsterba@suse.cz, Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/64] media: omap3isp: Extract struct group for memcpy()
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:37:30PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 02:37:20PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On 7/28/21 2:14 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 10:59:22AM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> > >>>   drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/ispstat.c |  5 +--
> > >>>   include/uapi/linux/omap3isp.h             | 44 +++++++++++++++++------
> > >>>   2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> > >>>
> > >>> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/ispstat.c b/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/ispstat.c
> > >>> index 5b9b57f4d9bf..ea8222fed38e 100644
> > >>> --- a/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/ispstat.c
> > >>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/ispstat.c
> > >>> @@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ int omap3isp_stat_request_statistics(struct ispstat *stat,
> > >>>   int omap3isp_stat_request_statistics_time32(struct ispstat *stat,
> > >>>   					struct omap3isp_stat_data_time32 *data)
> > >>>   {
> > >>> -	struct omap3isp_stat_data data64;
> > >>> +	struct omap3isp_stat_data data64 = { };
> > >>
> > >> Should this be { 0 } ?
> > >>
> > >> We've seen patches trying to switch from { 0 } to {  } but the answer
> > >> was that { 0 } is supposed to be used,
> > >> http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/random/initialise.html
> > >>
> > >> (from https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/fbddb15a-6e46-3f21-23ba-b18f66e3448a@suse.com/)
> > > 
> > > In the kernel we don't care about portability so much.  Use the = { }
> > > GCC extension.  If the first member of the struct is a pointer then
> > > Sparse will complain about = { 0 }.
> > 
> > +1 for { }.
> 
> Oh, I thought the tendency is is to use { 0 } because that can also
> intialize the compound members, by a "scalar 0" as it appears in the
> code.
> 

Holes in the structure might not be initialized to anything if you do
either one of these as well.

Or did we finally prove that is not the case?  I can not remember
anymore...

greg k-h