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Subject: Re: checkpatch.pl "uninitialized value"
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Schrober <franzschrober@yahoo.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 05:50:12 -0800
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On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 14:45 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 14:42 +0100, Schrober wrote:
> [...]
> > it seems the current version of checkpatch.pl in linux-next ist broken. I get
> > a lot of
> > 
> > Use of uninitialized value $ms_size in pattern match (m//) at ./scripts/checkpatch.pl line 3383.

> on which file?

Any file with a usleep_range or a memset

> If you would have added the command line to trivially reproduce that (or
> whatever you did to get it), people are more likely to look into it.

Try this patch:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/10/444