Re: URL to the latest /proc/driver/microcode

[Peter Samuelson]

[Bill Wendling <[e-mail]>]
> +static struct file_operations microcode_fops = {
> +       write:          microcode_write,
> +       open:           microcode_open,
> +       release:        microcode_release,
> +};
> 
> I'm guessing the above is a gcc extension to C of initializing a few
> members of a structure? It's slightly confusing, but a stylistic choice.
> (If it's standard C, I've never come across it before).

Right, it's a gcc extension.  (ISO rather recently came up with
different syntax -- which I can't remember exactly except that IMHO
it's ugly -- to do the same thing.  They couldn't just use gcc syntax,
could they?  Nooooo....)  I guess it kind of goes without saying that
the missing fields always get nulls.

The advantages of initializing structures this way are obvious:
increased source compatibility when fields are added/removed/moved, and
readability (no need for a comment for each member).

Peter