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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:54:59 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SGI Altix mmtimer - allow larger number of timers per
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On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 15:49:17 -0600 Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> wrote:

> The purpose of this patch to the SGI Altix specific mmtimer (posix timer)
> driver is to allow a virtually infinite number of timers to be set per node.
> 
> Timers will now be kept on a sorted per-node list and a single node-based
> hardware comparator is used to trigger the next timer.

drivers/char/mmtimer.c: In function `sgi_timer_del':
drivers/char/mmtimer.c:607: warning: 't' might be used uninitialized in this function

Are you sure this is absolutely always a false positive?   If so,
we can shut it up with uninitialized_var().