Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client changes for Linux 4.7

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Boris Ostrovsky
<boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This breaks on older compilers:
>
>   CC      fs/nfs/nfs4state.o
> /home/build/linux-linus/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c:69: error: unknown field
> âdataâ specified in initializer

Does the attached patch fix it for you?

I don't have easy access to the old compiler, but I _think_ the
trivial patch of just adding braces around the data initializer should
make old gcc's happy

              Linus
 fs/nfs/nfs4state.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
index 5075592df145..9679f4749364 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
 #define OPENOWNER_POOL_SIZE	8
 
 const nfs4_stateid zero_stateid = {
-	.data = { 0 },
+	{ .data = { 0 } },
 	.type = NFS4_SPECIAL_STATEID_TYPE,
 };
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(nfs_clid_init_mutex);