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From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel-list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB Elan FTDI: check for workqueue creation
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:43:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070223174337.60d9ed3f.zaitcev@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070223081005.GB10055@cvg>

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:10:05 +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:

> I may be wrong, but a lot of the kernel code have static pointers
> initialized to NULL with explicit manner... More over I always thought
> that _static_ is not mean _initialized to zero_. I think _static_ is
> just the method to _hide_ variables in the file (as ANSI C describes).
> Am I wrong?

I'm afraid you are wrong here. Static variables are initialized on
zero in C, although I cannot provide you with a relevant quote from
a standard. Just trust me for now, and resubmit the patch without
the first segment... :-)  You're clearly fixing a bug in it.

-- Pete

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-24  1:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-19 18:15 [PATCH] USB Elan FTDI: check for workqueue creation Cyrill Gorcunov
2007-02-22 23:55 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-02-23  7:53   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
     [not found]     ` <20070222235738.f36e534a.zaitcev@redhat.com>
2007-02-23  8:10       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2007-02-24  1:43         ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
2007-02-24  7:12           ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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