Re: [PATCH][RESEND] C99 initializers for DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE()

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> I already have a patch queued which does this
> (linux-ratelimith-fixed-missing-initializer-warning.patch).  I sent it
> to Linus on October 29 and he did not apply it, so I parked it for 2.6.29.

I just don't see the point of the patch at all. It doesn't fix anything, 
and it just makes the code bigger and uglier. We have tons of other 
simple initializers that aren't C99, and we're not going to convert them 
either. 

		Linus
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/