linux-kernel - [PATCH] stop gcc warning about uninitialized 'dev' in ata_scsi_scan

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Message-ID: <20081015232505.GB9272@ldl.fc.hp.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:25:05 -0600
From:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
To:	jeff@...hat.com
Cc:	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] stop gcc warning about uninitialized 'dev' in
	ata_scsi_scan_host

Shuts up gcc-3.4.5-glibc-2.3.6 when it complains of:

drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c: In function `ata_scsi_scan_host':
drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c:3225: warning: 'dev' might be used
uninitialized in this function

Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
---
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
index 5d312dc..4e27c68 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
@@ -3222,7 +3222,7 @@ void ata_scsi_scan_host(struct ata_port *ap, int sync)
 	int tries = 5;
 	struct ata_device *last_failed_dev = NULL;
 	struct ata_link *link;
-	struct ata_device *dev;
+	struct ata_device *dev = NULL;
 
 	if (ap->flags & ATA_FLAG_DISABLED)
 		return;
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