Re: [PATCH] misc: ioc4: simplify wave period measurement in clock_calibrate

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Monday 08 December 2014 16:28:10 Richard Leitner wrote:
> The loop for measuring the square wave periods over some cycles is
> refactored to be more easily readable. This includes avoiding a
> "by-hand-implemented" for loop with a "real" one and adding some
> comments.
> 
> Furthermore the following compiler warning is avoided by this patch:
> drivers/misc/ioc4.c: In function ‘ioc4_probe’:
> drivers/misc/ioc4.c:194:16: warning: ‘start’ may be used uninitialized
> in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>   period = (end - start) /
>                 ^
> drivers/misc/ioc4.c:148:11: note: ‘start’ was declared here
>   uint64_t start, end, period;
>            ^
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Leitner <dev@g0hl1n.net>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

> ---
> A simplification of this loop was suggested by Andrew Morton [1].
> This is my first proposal of such a simplification.
> 
> Furthermore I'm not sure if the commit message is sufficient.
> Please give me also some feedback on it.
> 
> If this simplification is not needed only initializing start to
> ktime_get_ns() would fix the compiler warning too.

With the changed loop, do you still get a warning if you
remove the extra 'start = ktime_get_ns()' at the start of the loop?

	Arnd