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.

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) <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>
---
Hello,

this patch is part of a bigger quest to use named initializers for
mainly struct i2c_device_id::driver_data to be able to modify
i2c_device_id. See e.g.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260518111203.639603-2-u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com/
for the details.

This patch here isn't critical for this quest, as no driver makes use of
.driver_data, so apart from the better readability this is only about
consistency with other subsystems.

Best regards
Uwe

 drivers/watchdog/ziirave_wdt.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/ziirave_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/ziirave_wdt.c
index 5c6e3fa001d8..f3bb935c08c2 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/ziirave_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/ziirave_wdt.c
@@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ static void ziirave_wdt_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
 }
 
 static const struct i2c_device_id ziirave_wdt_id[] = {
-	{ "rave-wdt" },
+	{ .name = "rave-wdt" },
 	{ }
 };
 MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, ziirave_wdt_id);

base-commit: 254f49634ee16a731174d2ae34bc50bd5f45e731
-- 
2.47.3

On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 07:19:01PM +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.
> 
> 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) <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>

Applied.

Thanks,
Guenter