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SubjectRe: [PATCH] stop gcc warning about uninitialized 'dev' in ata_scsi_scan_host
* Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:40:42PM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote:
> > * Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>:
> > > Alex Chiang wrote:
> > > > Shuts up gcc-3.4.5-glibc-2.3.6 when it complains of:
> > > >
> > > > drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c: In function `ata_scsi_scan_host':
> > > > drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c:3225: warning: 'dev' might be used
> > > > uninitialized in this function
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
> > >
> > > Nacked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> > >
> > > Some gcc versions complain about sata_via, others complain
> > > about something else. Some versions complain about some
> > > iterator usages while not complaining about others, but none of
> > > those complaints is actually wrong or dangerous. I don't think
> > > adding = NULL whenever some version of gcc complains is the
> > > right approach.
> >
> > Hm, ok.
> >
> > I guess we don't want to sprinkle these around all over the place
> > just to solve cosmetic issues, which makes sense, but is there
> > some other approach we could take instead? Any suggestions? Or
> > just live with it?
>
> We have an annotation for these kinds of warnings in the kernel.

Oh, is it this?

from linux/compiler-gcc3.h
#define uninitialized_var(x) x = x

/ac



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