Re: i2c-via686a driver

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 15:48:10 EST


On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:36:10PM +0100, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> Why? It's a valid C99 feature and since the kernel already uses C99
> initializers it won't compile with compilers that choke on C99 comments
> anyway.

Because there's a strong preference for traditional C style in the kernel.
typedefs are also a valid C feature and we try to avoid them.

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