linux-kernel - Re: [patch] ALSA: mixart: silence an uninitialized variable warning

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Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2016 09:22:53 +0100
From:	walter harms <wharms@....de>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
CC:	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
	Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@...il.com>,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] ALSA: mixart: silence an uninitialized variable warning



Am 16.03.2016 08:42, schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> We could print the uninitialized value of "stat" in the error message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> 
> diff --git a/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c b/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c
> index bc81b9f..25c0ddd 100644
> --- a/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c
> @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static int mixart_set_pipe_state(struct mixart_mgr *mgr,
>  	}
>  
>  	if(start) {
> -		u32 stat;
> +		u32 stat = 0;
>  
>  		group_state.pipe_count = 0; /* in case of start same command once again with pipe_count=0 */
>  

@maintainer:
can someone please fix/remove the comment here ? it read like if (pipe_count==0) pipe_count = 0.

just my 2 cents,

re,
 wh

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