Re: [PATCH] fsnotify: do not initialise statics to false

[Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>]

On 06/07/2016 05:17 AM, Wei Tang wrote:
> This patch fixes the checkpatch.pl error to inotify_fsnotify.c:
> 
> ERROR: do not initialise statics to false

So if a variable is declared as static this means it's going to live in
the BSS which is zeroed out on load. So implicitly it is going to be 0,
however I think this is a subtle detail. I personally rather have the
false there and live with the warning. Not everything that checkpatch
reports must be fixed.


> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Tang <tangwei@cmss.chinamobile.com>
> ---
>  fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
> index 2cd900c..09c5393 100644
> --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
> +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
> @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static int idr_callback(int id, void *p, void *data)
>  {
>  	struct fsnotify_mark *fsn_mark;
>  	struct inotify_inode_mark *i_mark;
> -	static bool warned = false;
> +	static bool warned;
>  
>  	if (warned)
>  		return 0;
>