[PATCH v3 0/3] enable drivers to be compiled with MSVC

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM Andre Muezerie
<andremue at linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> This patchset solves the last issues preventing drivers from being
> compiled with MSVC (array range initialization) and enables the
> drivers to be built with it.
>
> Array range initialization is non-standard and is not provided by
> all compilers. MSVC does not implement it and ends up emitting
> errors like the one below:
>
> drivers/net/r8169/r8169_phy.c(380):
>     error C2143: syntax error: missing ':' before '...'
> case CFG_METHOD_48 ... CFG_METHOD_57:
>
> The fix is to explicitly initialize each element in the range.
>
> v3:
> - Add a patch to enable drivers to be compiled with MSVC.
>
> v2:
> - Rebase on top of latest main.
>
> Andre Muezerie (3):
>   app/test: remove use of non-standard array range initialization
>   drivers/net: remove use of non-standard array range initialization
>   drivers: enable drivers to be compiled with MSVC
>
>  app/test/test_cryptodev_zuc_test_vectors.h | 156 ++++++-
>  drivers/meson.build                        |   4 -
>  drivers/net/octeon_ep/otx_ep_mbox.c        |  24 +-
>  drivers/net/r8169/base/rtl8125a_mcu.c      |   8 +-
>  drivers/net/r8169/base/rtl8126a.c          |   5 +-
>  drivers/net/r8169/r8169_ethdev.c           |  34 +-
>  drivers/net/r8169/r8169_hw.c               | 447 ++++++++++++++++++---
>  drivers/net/r8169/r8169_phy.c              | 163 +++++++-
>  drivers/net/r8169/r8169_rxtx.c             |  25 +-
>  9 files changed, 770 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)

Recheck-request: rebase=main, iol-compile-amd64-testing, iol-unit-amd64-testing

-- 
David Marchand