[PATCH 05/22] acpica: Replace comments with C99 initializers

[Moore, Robert]

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/22] acpica: Replace comments with C99 initializers

On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 7:39 PM Benjamin Stürz <benni at stuerz.xyz> wrote:
>
> This replaces comments with C99's designated initializers because the 
> kernel supports them now.

Does it follow the conventions which are accepted in the ACPI CA project?

No, it doesn't. ACPICA must work with many compilers, some of which are rather old. So, we don't support these initializers.
Bob

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Andy Shevchenko