From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263072AbVAFXkw (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:40:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261197AbVAFXkp (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:40:45 -0500 Received: from mail.dif.dk ([193.138.115.101]:700 "EHLO mail.dif.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263072AbVAFXhz (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:37:55 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 00:49:22 +0100 (CET) From: Jesper Juhl To: linux-tape@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [patch] ftape: shut up gcc - warning about possibly uninitialized var in drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/ftape-io.c Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tiny patch whose only purpose in life is to shut up gcc below (initializing flags to zero serves no real purpose in this function, so this really is just a 'shut up gcc' patch) : This is the warning it will elliminate : drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/ftape-io.c:93: warning: 'flags' might be used uninitialized in this function Apply if you want, if you don't that's just fine too :) Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl diff -up linux-2.6.10-bk9-orig/drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/ftape-format.c linux-2.6.10-bk9/drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/ftape-format.c --- linux-2.6.10-bk9-orig/drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/ftape-format.c 2004-12-24 22:34:45.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.10-bk9/drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/ftape-format.c 2005-01-07 00:43:22.000000000 +0100 @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ static void setup_format_buffer(buffer_s */ int ftape_format_track(const unsigned int track, const __u8 gap3) { - unsigned long flags; + unsigned long flags = 0; buffer_struct *tail, *head; int status; TRACE_FUN(ft_t_flow);