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

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Date:   Fri, 5 Oct 2018 16:55:29 -0400
From:   "George G. Davis" <ggdavisiv@...il.com>
To:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
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'

On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 07:43:01PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Ok.

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

No worries. Thanks for having a look.

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

I'll try to remember this in the future.

Thanks again!

--
Regards,
George