Re: [PATCH net-next] net: mana: Add a driver for Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA)

From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Thu Apr 08 2021 - 03:30:15 EST


On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 09:59:52PM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> > From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 5:45 AM
> > > >
> > > > BTW, you don't need to write { 0 }, the {} is enough.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the suggestion! I'll use {0} in v2.
> >
> > You missed the point, "{ 0 }" change to be "{}" without 0.
>
> Got it. Will make the suggested change.

The numbers are not important, if you are curious, read this thread, it
talks about {}, {0}, memset(0,..) and padding :)
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20200730192026.110246-1-yepeilin.cs@xxxxxxxxx/

>
> FWIW, {0} and { 0 } are still widely used, but it looks like
> {} is indeed more preferred:
>
> $ grep "= {};" drivers/net/ -nr | wc -l
> 829
>
> $ grep "= {0};" drivers/net/ -nr | wc -l
> 708
>
> $ grep "= {};" kernel/ -nr | wc -l
> 29
>
> $ grep "= {0};" kernel/ -nr | wc -l
> 4