Re: drm_dp_mst_topology.c and old compilers

From: Chris Wilson
Date: Thu Feb 20 2020 - 02:59:09 EST


Quoting Alex Deucher (2020-02-20 02:52:32)
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 7:42 PM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> 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