linux-kernel - Re: checkpatch.pl "uninitialized value"

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:59:56 +0100
From:	Schrober <franzschrober@...oo.de>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: checkpatch.pl "uninitialized value"

On Monday 14 January 2013 05:50:12 Joe Perches wrote:
> 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

Yes, it works. Thanks
-- 
Franz Schrober
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