From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:10:41 +0000
Subject: Re: InfiniBand-ocrdma: Delete unnecessary variable initialisations in 11 functions
Message-Id: <20160115161041.GK4764@mwanda>
List-Id: <kernel-janitors.vger.kernel.org>
References: <566ABCD9.1060404@users.sourceforge.net>
 <567EDED5.4040201@users.sourceforge.net>
 <5697D865.5010507@users.sourceforge.net>
 <5697DE31.9040309@users.sourceforge.net>
 <20160115132014.GC30615@leon.nu>
 <56990733.7000506@users.sourceforge.net>
 <20160115150935.GA32346@leon.nu>
 <56990FAC.6000506@users.sourceforge.net>
 <20160115155938.GB32346@leon.nu>
In-Reply-To: <20160115155938.GB32346-2ukJVAZIZ/Y@public.gmane.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring-Rn4VEauK+AKRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>, linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma-1wcpHE2jlwO1Z/+hSey0Gg@public.gmane.org>, Doug Ledford <dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>, Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>, Mitesh Ahuja <mitesh.ahuja-1wcpHE2jlwO1Z/+hSey0Gg@public.gmane.org>, Sean Hefty <sean.hefty-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>, Selvin Xavier <selvin.xavier-1wcpHE2jlwO1Z/+hSey0Gg@public.gmane.org>, LKML <linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>, kernel-janitors-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall-L2FTfq7BK8M@public.gmane.org>

Doing bogus initializations turns off GCC's checking for uninitialized
variables so it's a bad habbit.

On the other hand, GCC's checking is not perfect and it sometimes misses
bugs so these patches have to be reviewed manually which is maybe too
much work to be worthwhile.

regards,
dan carpenter