linux-kernel - Re: drm_dp_mst_topology.c and old compilers

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Message-ID: <158218553821.8112.10047864129562395990@skylake-alporthouse-com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Feb 2020 07:58:58 +0000
From:   Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
To:     Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@...il.com>, paulmck@...nel.org
Cc:     Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Maling list - DRI developers 
        <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: drm_dp_mst_topology.c and old compilers

Quoting Alex Deucher (2020-02-20 02:52:32)
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 7:42 PM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > A box with GCC 4.8.3 compiler didn't like drm_dp_mst_topology.c.  The
> > following (lightly tested) patch makes it happy and seems OK for newer
> > compilers as well.
> >
> > Is this of interest?
> 
> How about a memset instead?  That should be consistent across compilers.

The kernel has adopted the gccism: struct drm_dp_desc desc = {};
git grep '= {}' | wc -l: 2046
git grep '= { }' | wc -l: 694
-Chris