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

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:16:08 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix uninitialized local variable "covered" in i386
 acpi-cpufreq driver

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:12:22 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 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.


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