linux-kernel - RE: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 9/12] IPMI: add pigeonpoint poweroff

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Date:	Sun, 3 Dec 2006 19:53:48 -0800
From:	"Bela Lubkin" <blubkin@...are.com>
To:	"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	"Corey Minyard" <minyard@....org>,
	"OpenIPMI Developers" <openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Joseph Barnett" <jbarnett@...orola.com>
Subject: RE: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 9/12] IPMI: add pigeonpoint poweroff

Andrew Morton wrote:

> > Sometime, please go through the IPMI code looking for all these
> > statically-allocated things which are initialised to 0 or NULL and remove
> > all those intialisations?  They're unneeded, they increase the vmlinux
> > image size and there are quite a number of them.  Thanks.

Randy Dunlop replied:

> I was just about to send that patch.  Here it is,
> on top of the series-of-12.
...
> -static int bt_debug = BT_DEBUG_OFF;
> +static int bt_debug;

Is it wise to significantly degrade code readability to work around a minor
compiler / linker bug?

>Bela<
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