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

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Message-ID: <20110816164745.5b38b408@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:47:45 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Cc:	Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>,
	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 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:04:52 +0300
Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com> wrote:

> > 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?

Typo looking at the original commit
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