Re: PCI Express support for 2.4 kernel

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:24:02 +0200 Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@intel.com> wrote:

| Richard B. Johnson wrote:
| <discussion regarding initializers for static vars>
| 
| Let's stop this discussion, it leads to nowhere. Probable, yes, 
| initializer do add bytes to the data segment. But it does not make 
| difference for memory image after loading, do it?
| 
| Does this difference in executable size worth potential risk of error?
| 
| Anyway, common style in kernel seems to be to do initialize static vars, 
| even to 0. There are plenty of examples, including the same file, (for 
| 2.4.23)
| 
| arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c:32
| static int pci_using_acpi_prt = 0;
| 
| or
| 
| arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:1241
| static int tsc_disable __initdata = 0;
| 
| Finally, let's stop this thread. Let it be up to person who will be (if 
| it will happen) checking this code into kernel, to decide on coding 
| style. I, personally, value code clarity more then 4 bytes in executable 
| size. But I will not object if more experienced kernel maintainers have 
| another priority.

You seem to be missing that you shouldn't be looking in 2.4.x but in
2.6.x instead.  2.6.x has had hundreds++ of 0 initializers removed from it.

--
~Randy
MOTD:  Always include version info.