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Message-Id: <200808131415.36851.arnd@arndb.de> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:15:36 +0200 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> To: "John Kacur" <jkacur@...il.com> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Andy Whitcroft" <apw@...dowen.org>, rdunlap@...otime.net, jschopp@...tin.ibm.com Subject: Re: drop overzealous ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL from checkpatch.pl On Wednesday 13 August 2008, John Kacur wrote: > Could we drop this somewhat overzealous "ERROR: do not initialise > statics to 0 or NULL" from checkpatch.pl? I totally agree we should drop it. > Reasoning: > 1. This is not part of Documentation/CodingStyle However, it is in http://kernel-janitor.sourceforge.net/TODO and should be dropped from there as well. > 3. It can be a good form of documentation. I don't think so. Every C programmer should know that it is the same. > 5. It doesn't even change the object size (thus kernel size) to do so. > Demo with user space code. I'm not sure what the last compiler version was on which it made the difference, probably 2.95 or 3.0 or something else that is no longer supported. I do remember that at some point in time, we could save a few bytes by doing it. Arnd <>< -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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