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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Qing Xu <qingx@marvell.com>
Cc: lrg@ti.com, haojian.zhuang@gmail.com, cxie4@marvell.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: max8925: fix compiler warnings
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:41:36 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121123014135.GC4385@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1353550266-21330-1-git-send-email-qingx@marvell.com>

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On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:11:06AM +0800, Qing Xu wrote:

> -	int i, regulator_idx;
> +	int i;
> +	int regulator_idx = 0;

This sort of fix is rarely good without some analysis as to why this is
a sensible initialisation to do, just unconditionally initialising may
be masking a real issue in the control flow which the compiler has
identified.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-23  1:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-22  2:11 [PATCH] regulator: max8925: fix compiler warnings Qing Xu
2012-11-23  1:41 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-11-23  2:27   ` Qing Xu
2012-11-24 17:55     ` Mark Brown
2012-11-26  3:07       ` Qing Xu

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