Hi. There's no maintainer listed for the Alpha chips, so I'm sending this patch to the list in hopes it finds its way to the right hands. I'm attaching a patchset of 25 small patches for switching arch/alpha to use C99 named initializers. The uncompressed patch is about 60K. Art Haas Patched files: kernel/patches/sys_alcor.c kernel/patches/sys_sx164.c kernel/patches/irq_pyxis.c kernel/patches/irq.c kernel/patches/sys_miata.c kernel/patches/sys_jensen.c kernel/patches/irq_i8259.c kernel/patches/irq_srm.c kernel/patches/sys_titan.c kernel/patches/sys_takara.c kernel/patches/sys_dp264.c kernel/patches/sys_ruffian.c kernel/patches/irq_alpha.c kernel/patches/sys_eb64p.c kernel/patches/sys_mikasa.c kernel/patches/sys_wildfire.c kernel/patches/sys_eiger.c kernel/patches/sys_cabriolet.c kernel/patches/setup.c kernel/patches/sys_nautilus.c kernel/patches/sys_sio.c kernel/patches/sys_rx164.c kernel/patches/sys_sable.c kernel/patches/sys_noritake.c kernel/patches/sys_rawhide.c -- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759