linux-kernel - Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 9/12] IPMI: add pigeonpoint poweroff

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Date:	Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:12:58 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
CC:	Bela Lubkin <blubkin@...are.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>,
	OpenIPMI Developers <openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Joseph Barnett <jbarnett@...orola.com>
Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 9/12] IPMI: add pigeonpoint poweroff

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Bela Lubkin wrote:
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>> Sometime, please go through the IPMI code looking for all these
>>>> statically-allocated things which are initialised to 0 or NULL and 
>>>> remove
>>>> all those intialisations?  They're unneeded, they increase the vmlinux
>>>> image size and there are quite a number of them.  Thanks.
>>
>> Randy Dunlop replied:
>>
>>> I was just about to send that patch.  Here it is,
>>> on top of the series-of-12.
>> ...
>>> -static int bt_debug = BT_DEBUG_OFF;
>>> +static int bt_debug;
>>
>> Is it wise to significantly degrade code readability to work around a 
>> minor
>> compiler / linker bug?
> 
> Is that the only one that is a problem?
> 
> I don't think it's a problem.  We *know* that static data areas
> are init to 0.  Everything depends on that.  If that didn't work
> it would all break.
> 
> I could say that it's a nice coincidence that BT_DEBUG_OFF == 0,
> but I think that it's more than coincidence.

It's Corey's decision.  However, while code readability is also very
important to me, I disagree with "significantly" above.

-- 
~Randy
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