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* [PATCH v2] defxx: fix build warning
@ 2016-01-25  7:35 Sudip Mukherjee
  2016-01-25 15:26 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
  2016-01-25 18:52 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Sudip Mukherjee @ 2016-01-25  7:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David S. Miller, Maciej W. Rozycki; +Cc: linux-kernel, netdev, Sudip Mukherjee

We are getting many build warnings about:
'bar_start' may be used uninitialized
and
'bar_len' may be used uninitialized

They are not actually uninitialized as dfx_get_bars() will initialize
them properly. But still lets have them initialized just to satisfy the
compiler (gcc 4.8.2).

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
---

v2: only the first element is zeroed.

 drivers/net/fddi/defxx.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/fddi/defxx.c b/drivers/net/fddi/defxx.c
index 7f975a2..de5eaa6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/fddi/defxx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/fddi/defxx.c
@@ -533,8 +533,8 @@ static int dfx_register(struct device *bdev)
 	const char *print_name = dev_name(bdev);
 	struct net_device *dev;
 	DFX_board_t	  *bp;			/* board pointer */
-	resource_size_t bar_start[3];		/* pointers to ports */
-	resource_size_t bar_len[3];		/* resource length */
+	resource_size_t bar_start[3] = {0};	/* pointers to ports */
+	resource_size_t bar_len[3] = {0};	/* resource length */
 	int alloc_size;				/* total buffer size used */
 	struct resource *region;
 	int err = 0;
@@ -3697,8 +3697,8 @@ static void dfx_unregister(struct device *bdev)
 	int dfx_bus_pci = dev_is_pci(bdev);
 	int dfx_bus_tc = DFX_BUS_TC(bdev);
 	int dfx_use_mmio = DFX_MMIO || dfx_bus_tc;
-	resource_size_t bar_start[3];		/* pointers to ports */
-	resource_size_t bar_len[3];		/* resource lengths */
+	resource_size_t bar_start[3] = {0};	/* pointers to ports */
+	resource_size_t bar_len[3] = {0};	/* resource lengths */
 	int		alloc_size;		/* total buffer size used */
 
 	unregister_netdev(dev);
-- 
1.9.1

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* Re: [PATCH v2] defxx: fix build warning
  2016-01-25  7:35 [PATCH v2] defxx: fix build warning Sudip Mukherjee
@ 2016-01-25 15:26 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
  2016-01-25 18:52 ` David Miller
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Maciej W. Rozycki @ 2016-01-25 15:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Sudip Mukherjee; +Cc: David S. Miller, linux-kernel, netdev

On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:

> We are getting many build warnings about:
> 'bar_start' may be used uninitialized
> and
> 'bar_len' may be used uninitialized
> 
> They are not actually uninitialized as dfx_get_bars() will initialize
> them properly. But still lets have them initialized just to satisfy the
> compiler (gcc 4.8.2).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> ---

Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>

 Thanks,

  Maciej

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* Re: [PATCH v2] defxx: fix build warning
  2016-01-25  7:35 [PATCH v2] defxx: fix build warning Sudip Mukherjee
  2016-01-25 15:26 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
@ 2016-01-25 18:52 ` David Miller
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2016-01-25 18:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: sudipm.mukherjee; +Cc: macro, linux-kernel, netdev

From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:05:20 +0530

> We are getting many build warnings about:
> 'bar_start' may be used uninitialized
> and
> 'bar_len' may be used uninitialized
> 
> They are not actually uninitialized as dfx_get_bars() will initialize
> them properly. But still lets have them initialized just to satisfy the
> compiler (gcc 4.8.2).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>

Applied.

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