Re: [2.6.29-rc2-git2] compilation warnings

Takashi Iwai
2009-01-27T09:34:31Z

At Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:46:28 +0100,
Jean Delvare wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:32:17 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:15:29 +0100,
> > Rufus & Azrael wrote:
> > >
> > > Here are my compilation warnings for fresh 2.6.29-rc2-git2 kernel :
> > >
> > > > sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c: In function ‘get_empty_pcm_device’:
> > > > sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:2544: attention : ‘dev’ may be used
> > > > uninitialized in this function
> >
> > A bogus warning. Ignore this.
>
> No matter how bogus it is, it should be fixed. Otherwise this is
> wasting the time of users and developers over and over again.

Well, it's a bug of gcc appearing only in a certain version, so most
people won't see it.

Of course, we can put uninitialized_var(). But, I don't basically
like adding it unconditionally...

Takashi