Subject: Re: [PATCH] ieee802154: fix gcc-4.9 warnings

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:34:52 -0700

On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 12:16 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> All older compiler versions up to gcc-4.9 produce these
> harmless warnings:
> 
> drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c: In function 'ca8210_skb_tx':
> drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c:1947:9: warning: missing braces around initializer [-Wmissing-braces]
> 
> This changes the syntax to something that works on all versions
> without warnings.
> 
> Fixes: ded845a781a5 ("ieee802154: Add CA8210 IEEE 802.15.4 device driver")
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c b/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c
[]
> @@ -1944,7 +1944,7 @@ static int ca8210_skb_tx(
>  )
>  {
>  	int status;
> -	struct ieee802154_hdr header = { 0 };
> +	struct ieee802154_hdr header = { };
>  	struct secspec secspec;
>  	unsigned int mac_len;

Presumably gcc does this because the first member
of struct ieee802154_hdr is another struct.

I wonder if "struct foo bar = { 0 };" should be
discouraged by checkpatch.

Right now it's about 4:3 in favor of
	struct foo bar = {};
over
	struct foo bar = { 0 };

$ git grep -E "struct\s+\w+\s+\w+\s*=\s*\{\s*0\s*\}\s*[,;]" | wc -l
826
$ git grep -E "struct\s+\w+\s+\w+\s*=\s*\{\s*\}\s*[,;]" | wc -l
990

There are many instances on multiple lines too.
The git grep above doesn't span multiple lines.