linux-kernel - Re: [PULL REQUEST] i2c for 4.12

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFymRrdZO-ASyZSgq4Da28fGJOSd3R-idok_L7NJdTGa0Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 13:32:52 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Cc:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PULL REQUEST] i2c for 4.12

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Have not tested that commit, but did verify that yes it was the i2c
> pull, and am about to reboot into a kernel that just zeroes those
> variables beforehand (which seems to be the same thing that commit
> does, although it also moves lines around for some unfathomable
> reason).

Confirmed. Initializing those fields to zero fixes it.

               Linus