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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:44:20 +0300 From: Maxin B John <maxin.john@...il.com> To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@...log.com>, Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@....fraunhofer.de>, Bryan Freed <bfreed@...omium.org>, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: iio: industrialio-core: Fix compiler warning On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk> wrote: > On 08/22/11 11:08, Maxin B. John wrote: >> drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-core.c: In function >> 'iio_device_add_event_sysfs': >> drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-core.c:914: warning: 'mask' may be >> used uninitialized in this function > Thanks for the patch. It's actually a driver bug if this occurs. > We could have had a WARN_ON to let userspace know about the bug and > indeed taken the error route you suggest but > the relevant code has actually undergone a rewrite anyway so the > bit you are fixing doesn't exist any more anyway. Yes, That makes more sense. > See http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio-blue.git;a=summary > For our current dev tree (eats babies and includes all sorts of stuff > that hasn't been reviewed yet - so beware). Thanks for sharing this (scary) info :) Best Regards, Maxin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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