Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Aug 2003 01:31:34 +0100 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: C99 Initialisers |
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:23:44PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:08:41AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:53:24AM +0100, Dave Jones wrote: > > > What would be *really* nice, would be the ability to do something > > > to the effect of.. > > Yeah, that would be cool to do. 2.7 :)
Well, we'd need some cooperation from the GCC folks for it ... I can't see them being too interested in this extension.
> Yeah, it was just a port from 2.4 which says: > > struct pci_device_id { > unsigned int vendor, device; > unsigned int subvendor, subdevice; > unsigned int class, class_mask; > unsigned long driver_data; > }; > > We could probably change it now if you really want to. Don't know if it > will save much space though.
Think about it, 8 bytes per pci_device_id; that's 120 bytes in tg3 alone. Admittedly tg3 has more than its fair share of IDs, but distro kernels will love it.
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