Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: sja1105: Fix status initialization in sja1105_get_ethtool_stats

From: David Miller
Date: Tue May 07 2019 - 15:22:01 EST


From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 13:24:47 -0700

> Clang warns:
>
> drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_ethtool.c:316:39: warning: suggest
> braces around initialization of subobject [-Wmissing-braces]
> struct sja1105_port_status status = {0};
> ^
> {}
> 1 warning generated.
>
> One way to fix these warnings is to add additional braces like Clang
> suggests; however, there has been a bit of push back from some
> maintainers[1][2], who just prefer memset as it is unambiguous, doesn't
> depend on a particular compiler version[3], and properly initializes all
> subobjects. Do that here so there are no more warnings.
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/022e41c0-8465-dc7a-a45c-64187ecd9684@xxxxxxx/
> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181128.215241.702406654469517539.davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181116150432.2408a075@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Fixes: 52c34e6e125c ("net: dsa: sja1105: Add support for ethtool port counters")
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/471
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied to net-next.