From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil, jeff@garzik.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] drivers/atm/firestream.c: suppress uninitialized var warning
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:39:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080328173946.23903be0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080328.173523.66723417.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:35:23 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:11:28 -0700
>
> > Plus uninitialized_var() gives us something to grep for and
> > experiment with if/when future gcc's get smarter.
>
> That's sounds like a great investment of your time.
>
> I guess there aren't any more interesting things to work
> on, nor bugs to fix.
So you're all outa reasons.
I have explained our reasons for using uninitialized_var() rather than
sprinkling =0 all over the place, that's all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-29 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-28 21:37 [patch 1/4] drivers/atm/firestream.c: suppress uninitialized var warning akpm
2008-03-28 23:20 ` David Miller
2008-03-28 23:54 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-28 23:58 ` David Miller
2008-03-29 0:11 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-29 0:35 ` David Miller
2008-03-29 0:39 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-03-31 15:57 ` Al Viro
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