linux-kernel - [PATCH] clk: use uninitialized_var instead setting 'flags' to 0 directly.

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Message-ID: <1411365131-22094-1-git-send-email-Li.Xiubo@freescale.com>
Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:52:11 +0800
From:	Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@...escale.com>
To:	<mturquette@...aro.org>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@...escale.com>
Subject: [PATCH] clk: use uninitialized_var instead setting 'flags' to 0 directly.

Setting 'flags' to zero will be certainly a misleading way to avoid
warning of 'flags' may be used uninitialized. uninitialized_var is
a correct way because the warning is a false possitive.

Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@...escale.com>
---
 drivers/clk/clk-gate.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-gate.c b/drivers/clk/clk-gate.c
index 4a58c55..51fd87f 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk-gate.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk-gate.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static void clk_gate_endisable(struct clk_hw *hw, int enable)
 {
 	struct clk_gate *gate = to_clk_gate(hw);
 	int set = gate->flags & CLK_GATE_SET_TO_DISABLE ? 1 : 0;
-	unsigned long flags = 0;
+	unsigned long uninitialized_var(flags);
 	u32 reg;

 	set ^= enable;
-- 
2.1.0.27.g96db324

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