Re: [PATCH] stop gcc warning about uninitialized 'dev' in ata_scsi_scan_host

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:40:42PM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote:
> * Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>:
> > Alex Chiang wrote:
> > > Shuts up gcc-3.4.5-glibc-2.3.6 when it complains of:
> > > 
> > > drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c: In function `ata_scsi_scan_host':
> > > drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c:3225: warning: 'dev' might be used
> > > uninitialized in this function
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
> > 
> > Nacked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> > 
> > Some gcc versions complain about sata_via, others complain
> > about something else.  Some versions complain about some
> > iterator usages while not complaining about others, but none of
> > those complaints is actually wrong or dangerous.  I don't think
> > adding = NULL whenever some version of gcc complains is the
> > right approach.
> 
> Hm, ok.
> 
> I guess we don't want to sprinkle these around all over the place
> just to solve cosmetic issues, which makes sense, but is there
> some other approach we could take instead? Any suggestions? Or
> just live with it?

We have an annotation for these kinds of warnings in the kernel.

But we'll never get a warning-free compilation with all seven (sic) 
supported gcc release series.

A warning-free compilation with gcc 4.3 is worth some efforts, but 
cluttering our code to fix bogus warnings with older gcc versions
is not a good thing.

> /ac

cu
Adrian

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