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Message-ID: <s5h5znlpbdt.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
Date:   Mon, 29 Jul 2019 09:07:10 +0200
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of Linus' tree

On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 09:03:14 +0200,
Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 08:58 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 06:04:04 +0200,
> > Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > After merging the origin tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> > > allyesconfig) produced this warning:
> > > 
> > > sound/aoa/codecs/onyx.c: In function 'onyx_snd_single_bit_get':
> > > sound/aoa/codecs/onyx.c:377:37: warning: 'c' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> > >   ucontrol->value.integer.value[0] = !!(c & mask) ^ polarity;
> > >                                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > 
> > > Introduced by commit
> > > 
> > >   f3d9478b2ce4 ("[ALSA] snd-aoa: add snd-aoa")
> > > 
> > > This warning has been around for a long time.  It could possibly be
> > > suppressed by checking for errors returned by onyx_read_register().
> > 
> > Yes, or simply zero-ing the variable in onyx_read_register().  The
> > current code ignores the read error and it's been OK over a decade :)
> 
> Yeah, it's pretty weird that it never showed up before. I was wondering
> for a minute why I was CC'ed on a sound merge issue :-)

Maybe switched to a new gcc version?

> Do you want me to send a patch or just commit something to suppress
> this?

Yes, that'd be appreciated.


Thanks!

Takashi

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