linux-kernel - [PATCH -mm] DC395x SCSI driver: Shut up uninitialized variable build warning

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0709030152260.29617@enigma.security.iitk.ac.in>
Date:	Mon, 3 Sep 2007 01:53:12 +0530 (IST)
From:	Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
cc:	James Bottomley <james.bottomley@...eleye.com>,
	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.name>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH -mm] DC395x SCSI driver: Shut up uninitialized variable build
 warning


drivers/scsi/dc395x.c: In function ‘dc395x_init_one’:
drivers/scsi/dc395x.c:4272: warning: ‘ptr’ may be used uninitialized in this function

has been verified to be a bogus warning. Let's shut it up.

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>

---

 drivers/scsi/dc395x.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1/drivers/scsi/dc395x.c‾fix	2007-09-02 20:57:51.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1/drivers/scsi/dc395x.c	2007-09-02 21:10:49.000000000 +0530
@@ -4269,7 +4269,7 @@ static int __devinit adapter_sg_tables_a
 	const unsigned srbs_per_page = PAGE_SIZE/SEGMENTX_LEN;
 	int srb_idx = 0;
 	unsigned i = 0;
-	struct SGentry *ptr;
+	struct SGentry * uninitialized_var(ptr);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < DC395x_MAX_SRB_CNT; i++)
 		acb->srb_array[i].segment_x = NULL;