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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Li Wang <li.wang@windriver.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jirislaby@kernel.org,
	dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [V2][PATCH] vt: keyboard, fix uninitialized variables warning
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 14:30:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YEDS2QQLrqeSuG6D@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YEDSh/1OScaKWdxL@smile.fi.intel.com>

On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 02:28:55PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 11:10:48AM +0800, Li Wang wrote:
> > drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c: In function 'vt_do_kdgkb_ioctl':
> > drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c: warning: 'ret' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> >   return ret;
> >          ^~~
> > drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c: warning: 'kbs' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> >   kfree(kbs);
> 
> 
> Let me add one more comment and summarize altogether:
>  - Jiri wants you to have different error code
>  - Greg (and I noticed that as well) wants you to add a proper commit message,
>    and not just some output of some tool w/o context
>  - I want you to send a new version w/o chaining to the previous thread, so
>    start new (email) thread every time you send a new version
> 
> Waiting for v3 in a separate email thread, thanks!

Last, but not least: add a changelog after the cutter '---' line, so people will know what have you done on the transition from vX to vX+1.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



      reply	other threads:[~2021-03-04 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-03  4:59 [PATCH] vt: keyboard, fix uninitialized variables warning Li Wang
2021-03-03  7:14 ` Greg KH
2021-03-03  7:33   ` Wang, Li
2021-03-03  7:39     ` Greg KH
2021-03-03  8:24       ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-03-03  9:21         ` Wang, Li
2021-03-04  3:10           ` [V2][PATCH] " Li Wang
2021-03-04  7:03             ` Jiri Slaby
2021-03-04  7:04             ` Greg KH
2021-03-04 12:28             ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-03-04 12:30               ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]

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