Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Jan 2016 08:49:30 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: always initialize *flags from of_get_named_gpio_flags | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 11:40 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> The of_get_named_gpio_flags() function does nothing other than returning > an error when CONFIG_OF_GPIO is disabled, but that causes spurious > warnings about possible use of uninitialized variables in any code that > does not check the of_get_named_gpio_flags() return value before trying > to use the flags: > > drivers/input/misc/rotary_encoder.c: In function 'rotary_encoder_probe': > drivers/input/misc/rotary_encoder.c:223:28: warning: 'flags' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] > drivers/power/bq24735-charger.c: In function 'bq24735_charger_probe': > drivers/power/bq24735-charger.c:227:12: warning: 'flags' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] > drivers/power/sbs-battery.c: In function 'sbs_probe': > drivers/power/sbs-battery.c:782:17: warning: 'gpio_flags' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] > > This changes the behavior of the inline helper to set the flags to zero > when OF_GPIO is disabled, to avoid the warnings. In all cases I've > encountered, we don't actually get to the place that uses the flags > if CONFIG_OF is disabled because we won't enter the DT parser code. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Patch applied!
Yours, Linus Walleij
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