From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: suppress build warning
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 15:59:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12630889.EI0exeDoNc@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1417703910-2474-1-git-send-email-prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
On Thursday 04 December 2014 14:38:30 Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
> this patch fixes following build warning:
>
> drivers/misc/ioc4.c: In function ‘ioc4_probe’:
> drivers/misc/ioc4.c:194:16: warning: ‘start’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> period = (end - start) /
> ^
> drivers/misc/ioc4.c:148:11: note: ‘start’ was declared here
> uint64_t start, end, period;
>
> Signed-off-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Please explain why the compiler thinks there is a bug, why you
are sure that there isn't, and why you picked '0' as the
initialization value.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-04 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-04 14:38 [PATCH] misc: suppress build warning Lad, Prabhakar
2014-12-04 14:59 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2014-12-04 15:13 ` Prabhakar Lad
2014-12-04 16:30 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-12-05 7:37 ` Andrew Morton
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