From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] bcm63xx: zero initialize mac_addr_used.
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 15:41:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090601144154.GE6604@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905312029.07558.florian@openwrt.org>
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:29:07PM +0200, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> This patch initializes mac_addr_used to zero, the checks
> against it later would not work properly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
> ---
> diff --git a/arch/mips/bcm63xx/boards/board_bcm963xx.c b/arch/mips/bcm63xx/boards/board_bcm963xx.c
> index 78a40e7..298804a 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/bcm63xx/boards/board_bcm963xx.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/bcm63xx/boards/board_bcm963xx.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
> #define PFX "board_bcm963xx: "
>
> static struct bcm963xx_nvram nvram;
> -static unsigned int mac_addr_used;
> +static unsigned int mac_addr_used = 0;
Ditto - the variable defaults to zero. Explicit initialization however
will inflate the .data section. Dropped.
Ralf
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-01 14:42 UTC|newest]
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2009-05-31 18:29 [PATCH 06/10] bcm63xx: zero initialize mac_addr_used Florian Fainelli
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