linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: serial2002: quiet NULL pointer sparse noise

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Date:	Fri, 8 Jun 2012 12:48:42 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
Cc:	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	"fmhess@...rs.sourceforge.net" <fmhess@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Ian Abbott <ian.abbott@....co.uk>,
	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@...ionengravers.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: serial2002: quiet NULL pointer sparse
 noise

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 10:07:30AM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
> I wonder if it also issues that warning for a struct initializer such as
> {0} where the first member of the struct is a pointer, or would it
> expect you to use {NULL} which is more confusing when the struct
> contains a mixture of pointer and non-pointer members?
> 

It does warn about that.  The fix is to just say:

	struct foo bar = {};

regards,
dan carpenter
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