linux-kernel - Re: InfiniBand-ocrdma: Delete unnecessary variable initialisations in 11 functions

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:10:41 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma@...gotech.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
	Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
	Mitesh Ahuja <mitesh.ahuja@...gotech.com>,
	Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
	Selvin Xavier <selvin.xavier@...gotech.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: InfiniBand-ocrdma: Delete unnecessary variable initialisations
 in 11 functions

Doing bogus initializations turns off GCC's checking for uninitialized
variables so it's a bad habbit.

On the other hand, GCC's checking is not perfect and it sometimes misses
bugs so these patches have to be reviewed manually which is maybe too
much work to be worthwhile.

regards,
dan carpenter