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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@atheros.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: ath: Fix uninitialized variable warnings
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 13:34:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100528173431.GB2405@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100527181052.23905.67123.sendpatchset@prarit.bos.redhat.com>

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:14:54PM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> Fixes 'make -j24 CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y' warning:
> 
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/eeprom_4k.c: In function ‘ath9k_hw_get_4k_gain_boundaries_pdadcs.clone.1’:
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/eeprom_4k.c:311: error: ‘minPwrT4’ may be used uninitialized in this function
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/eeprom_9287.c: In function ‘ath9k_hw_get_AR9287_gain_boundaries_pdadcs’:
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/eeprom_9287.c:302: error: ‘minPwrT4’ may be used uninitialized in this function
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/eeprom_def.c: In function ‘ath9k_hw_get_def_gain_boundaries_pdadcs.clone.0’:
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/eeprom_def.c:679: error: ‘minPwrT4’ may be used uninitialized in this function
> 
> Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>

It looks to me like minPwrT4 will get initialized as long as
numXpdGains is non-zero in all cases.  Anyone know if this is true?

It's probably not a big deal, but better to avoid an unnecessary
memset if we can.  Maybe unitialized_var is the better choice?

John
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       reply	other threads:[~2010-05-28 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20100527181052.23905.67123.sendpatchset@prarit.bos.redhat.com>
2010-05-28 17:34 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2010-05-28 20:44   ` [PATCH]: ath: Fix uninitialized variable warnings Pavel Roskin
2010-06-17 22:41     ` Prarit Bhargava
2010-06-19 17:33       ` Pavel Roskin
2010-05-27 18:15 Prarit Bhargava

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