linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250: fix uninitialized compiler warning

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Message-ID: <1289328876.2260.37.camel@cowboy>
Date:	Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:54:36 -0300
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250: fix uninitialized compiler warning

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 18:33 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:55:23 -0300
> Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org>
> > 
> > This addresses:
> > 
> >   CC [M]  drivers/serial/8250.o
> > drivers/serial/8250.c: In function ‘serial8250_shutdown’:
> > drivers/serial/8250.c:1696: warning: ‘i’ may be used uninitialized in this function
> > drivers/serial/8250.c:1696: note: ‘i’ was declared here
> 
> NAK - pleass see the four or five previous discussions on this one.
> 
Yes I should have googled this one before sending.

> The current compilers all seem to get it right anyway.

This is with gcc 4.4.5 (ubuntu 10.10 - latest), released on October 1st,
2010 (quite current).

Thanks,
Davidlohr


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