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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
Cc: KML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, sensors@Stimpy.netroedge.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH-2.5] Fix w83781d sensor to use Milli-Volt for in_* in sysfs
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 00:41:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030409074124.GA9813@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1049869101.2754.31.camel@workshop.saharact.lan>

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 08:18:21AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 00:04, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > Oh, I'm getting the following warning when building the driver, want to
> > look into this?
> > 
> > drivers/i2c/chips/w83781d.c: In function `store_fan_div_reg':
> > drivers/i2c/chips/w83781d.c:715: warning: `old3' might be used uninitialized in this function
> >   
> 
> It is because old3 is only referenced if:
> 
>  ((data->type != w83781d) && data->type != as99127f)
> 
> as those two chips don't have extended divisor bits ...
> 
> It is however set in the first occurrence:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>        /* w83781d and as99127f don't have extended divisor bits */
>        if ((data->type != w83781d) && data->type != as99127f) {
>                old3 = w83781d_read_value(client, W83781D_REG_VBAT);
>        }
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> and thus is rather gcc being brain dead for not being able to figure
> old3 is only used within a if block like that.
> 
> I was not sure about style policy in a case like this, so I left it as
> is, it should however be possible to 'fix' it with:

Thanks, I've applied this.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-09  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-07 21:16 [PATCH-2.5] Fix w83781d sensor to use Milli-Volt for in_* in sysfs Martin Schlemmer
2003-04-07 21:54 ` Greg KH
2003-04-08  4:11   ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-04-08 22:04     ` Greg KH
2003-04-09  6:18       ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-04-09  7:41         ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-04-08 22:11   ` Martin Schlemmer

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