Re: [PATCH 1/3] staging: ft1000: Fix compilation warning.

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:15:26 +0100 Marek Belisko wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


a.  always include the warning or error message that the patch fixes

b.  (quoting from another email yesterday:)

so in your analysis of this compiler warning, was the warning correct & justified,
or was it false?  I.e., is the init to NULL needed?

If it was false, could we just silence the warning by using:

	struct ft1000_info *unitialized_var(pft1000info);

plus #include <linux/compiler.h> ?


> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c b/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c
> index 99e3339..b7c4602 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c
> @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static int ft1000_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
>  	int i, ret = 0, size;
>  
>  	struct ft1000_device *ft1000dev;
> -	struct ft1000_info *pft1000info;
> +	struct ft1000_info *pft1000info = NULL;
>  	const struct firmware *dsp_fw;
>  
>  	ft1000dev = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ft1000_device), GFP_KERNEL);
> -- 


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~Randy
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