linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tty: clearify structure initializer in notify

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Date:	Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:04:52 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: clearify structure initializer in notify_write()

> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com> wrote:
> > Even though this is valid C we should not mix C99 initializers with
> > obfuscated ANSI C.

I saw this patch the first time and I couldn't figure out why the
original code was written that way.  I'm curious, is there some trick
here that I don't see, or is it just a typo that happens to work?

regards,
dan carpenter
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