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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] drivers/atm/firestream.c: suppress uninitialized
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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:39:46 -0700
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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.