From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752597Ab2CGGQb (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2012 01:16:31 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:48488 "EHLO mail-wi0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751920Ab2CGGQa (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2012 01:16:30 -0500 Message-ID: <4F56FD34.1090103@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:16:20 +0800 From: Zhengwang Ruan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.27) Gecko/20120216 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.19 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: arve@android.com, chris+android@zenthought.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Staging:android: Initialise buffer and buffer_size before used References: <1331087818-9942-1-git-send-email-ruan.zhengwang@gmail.com> <1331087818-9942-2-git-send-email-ruan.zhengwang@gmail.com> <20120307054616.GA7775@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20120307054616.GA7775@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -------- Original Message -------- From: Greg KH Sent: 2012年03月06日 星期二 21时46分16秒 To: Zhengwang Ruan Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Staging:android: Initialise buffer and buffer_size before used > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:36:58AM +0800, Zhengwang Ruan wrote: >> GCC warns 'buffer' and 'buffer_size' are used with being uninitialized, and >> 'buffer' is used as returned value, and 'buffer_size' is initialized using >> uninitialized_var to clear warning. > Doesn't say that for me at all, what version of gcc are you using? I'm > using 4.6.2 here, and if you are using an older version, then please > upgrade to one smarter than the one you are using. > > As you are trying to paper over gcc issues, I can't take this patch, > sorry. > Ok, I will make another try after updating GCC to 4.6. Thank you for your effort! Thanks, -Zhengwang > greg k-h >