linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: kvm/paging_tmpl.h intialize the variable before using it

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Message-ID: <4A1BD62B.4050206@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 May 2009 14:44:43 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: kvm/paging_tmpl.h intialize the variable	before
 using it

Ingo Molnar wrote:

  

>> It's a false alarm.  Isn't there a macro to shut up the warning?
>>     
>
> there's uninitialized_var(), but that will shut up the warning and 
> any _correct_ future warning - so it's dangerous. Initialize it to 
> NULL and be done with it? We dont want stray warnings in the kernel.
>   

Makes sense, so I've applied the patch.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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