linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i2c: core: squelch error: uninitialized symbol 'ret'

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Date:   Fri, 5 Oct 2018 19:43:01 +0200
From:   Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:     "George G. Davis" <ggdavisiv@...il.com>
Cc:     "open list:I2C SUBSYSTEM" <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "George G. Davis" <george_davis@...tor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: core: squelch error: uninitialized symbol 'ret'


> Feel free to ignore if this is a topic already discussed in other
> threads. To be honest, I did not search the mailing list to determine if
> this particular issue was already discussed.  

Not this particular issue, but in general we usually don't change
working code to silence false positives in code checkers.

But thanks for letting me know this is a false positive!

BTW next time CC Dan Carpenter, he might be interested to fix the issue
in smatch.


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