linux-kernel - Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line

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Message-ID: <20070123105331.GB20660@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:53:31 +0000
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@...il.com>
Cc:	Tomas Carnecky <tom@...ervice.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:50:15PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> On 1/23/07, Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >See Message-ID: <20070118152326.GC31418@...nt.arm.linux.org.uk> sent on
> >18 January in this thread.  Such strings might as well be initialised to
> >an empty string.
> 
> So it will be fine if I initialize it to "" and remove the static from
> the your example?

Why do you want to remove the static?

> BTW: Is there a difference between "" and initialize it to {0}?

Not in the end result.  However, "" is a string but {0} is an array.
So, "" helps to say to the reader "we're treating this as a string".
Also, "" is quicker to type than {0}.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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