linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] Fix uninitialized local variable "covered" in i386 acpi-cpufreq driver

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Message-ID: <79E93560F4A5FD42BB769DAAF8BEF62A021BB08C@scsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:46:08 -0700
From:	"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Fix uninitialized local variable "covered" in i386 acpi-cpufreq driver

>> How's that for a one-liner? ;)

>- the return value from acpi_cpufreq_early_init() gets ignored,
>  so the module will still load, but won't work.

>- Once that is fixed, the test for !acpi_perf_data[cpu] in
>  acpi_cpufreq_cpu_init() can be removed.

We will modify code in those places.
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