linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regmap: debugfs: Fix compilation warning

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Message-ID: <20130122064121.GC1766@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:41:23 +0900
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Vincent Stehlé <v-stehle@...com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regmap: debugfs: Fix compilation warning

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 03:36:55PM +0100, Vincent Stehlé wrote:
> This fixes the following compilation warning:

> -	unsigned int i, ret;
> +	unsigned int i, ret = 0;

This sort of fix is not a good idea, you're just shutting the warning up
without any sort of analysis explaining why it's generated in error.  If
it's generating a spurious error that's a compiler bug.

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