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

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Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:24:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	jeff@...hat.com, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stop gcc warning about uninitialized 'dev' in
 ata_scsi_scan_host

> > > I guess we don't want to sprinkle these around all over the place
> > > just to solve cosmetic issues, which makes sense, but is there
> > > some other approach we could take instead? Any suggestions? Or
> > > just live with it?
> > 
> > We have an annotation for these kinds of warnings in the kernel.
> 
> Oh, is it this?
> 
> from linux/compiler-gcc3.h
> #define uninitialized_var(x) x = x

Yes, you got it.

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~Randy
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