From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:46:16 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Staging:android: Initialise buffer and buffer_size before used Message-Id: <20120307054616.GA7775@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <1331087818-9942-1-git-send-email-ruan.zhengwang@gmail.com> <1331087818-9942-2-git-send-email-ruan.zhengwang@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1331087818-9942-2-git-send-email-ruan.zhengwang@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Zhengwang Ruan Cc: arve@android.com, chris+android@zenthought.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:36:58AM +0800, Zhengwang Ruan wrote: > GCC warns 'buffer' and 'buffer_size' are used with being uninitialized, and > 'buffer' is used as returned value, and 'buffer_size' is initialized using > uninitialized_var to clear warning. Doesn't say that for me at all, what version of gcc are you using? I'm using 4.6.2 here, and if you are using an older version, then please upgrade to one smarter than the one you are using. As you are trying to paper over gcc issues, I can't take this patch, sorry. greg k-h