Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:34:20 +0100 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: [2.6.29-rc2-git2] compilation warnings |
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At Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:46:28 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:32:17 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > At Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:15:29 +0100, > > Rufus & Azrael wrote: > > > > > > Here are my compilation warnings for fresh 2.6.29-rc2-git2 kernel : > > > > > > > sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c: In function ‘get_empty_pcm_device’: > > > > sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2544: attention : ‘dev’ may be used > > > > uninitialized in this function > > > > A bogus warning. Ignore this. > > No matter how bogus it is, it should be fixed. Otherwise this is > wasting the time of users and developers over and over again.
Well, it's a bug of gcc appearing only in a certain version, so most people won't see it.
Of course, we can put uninitialized_var(). But, I don't basically like adding it unconditionally...
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