linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/22] acpica: Replace comments with C99 initializers

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Date:   Thu, 31 Mar 2022 22:10:38 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/22] acpica: Replace comments with C99 initializers

On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 10:59:54PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 7:39 PM Benjamin Stürz <benni@...erz.xyz> wrote:
> >
> > This replaces comments with C99's designated
> > initializers because the kernel supports them now.
> 
> Does it follow the conventions which are accepted in the ACPI CA project?

Why would ACPI CA be allowed to make up it's own conventions?  And as
you might imply not allow using a very useful and more than 20 year old
C feature?  This kind of BS need to stop.