Re: [PATCH] backlight: Use named initializers for arrays of i2c_device_data
From: Daniel Thompson <danielt@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-05-29 10:01:34
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From: Daniel Thompson <danielt@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-05-29 10:01:34
Also in:
dri-devel, lkml
On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 01:12:03PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) wrote:
While being less compact, using named initializers allows to more easily see which members of the structs are assigned which value without having to lookup the declaration of the struct. And it's also more robust against changes to the struct definition. The mentioned robustness is relevant for a planned change to struct i2c_device_id that replaces .driver_data by an anonymous union. While touching all these arrays, unify usage of whitespace in the list terminator. This patch doesn't modify the compiled arrays, only their representation in source form benefits. The former was confirmed with x86 and arm64 builds. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson (RISCstar) <danielt@kernel.org> Daniel.