Re: [PATCH] replace for loop with array initializer

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 20:24:50 +0100
Salah Triki <salah.triki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/farsync.c b/drivers/net/wan/farsync.c
> index b3466e084e84..a90d3b9a8170 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wan/farsync.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wan/farsync.c
> @@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ static void fst_process_int_work_q(struct tasklet_struct *unused);
>  static DECLARE_TASKLET(fst_tx_task, fst_process_tx_work_q);
>  static DECLARE_TASKLET(fst_int_task, fst_process_int_work_q);
>  
> -static struct fst_card_info *fst_card_array[FST_MAX_CARDS];
> +static struct fst_card_info *fst_card_array[FST_MAX_CARDS] = { [0 ... FST_MAX_CARDS-1] = NULL };

Why bother, the default initialization in C is 0 (ie. NULL).
In fact, checkpatch should complain about useless array initialization for this.