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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atm: fore200e.c: fix uninitialized variable
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:30:09 -0500 (EST)
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From: Cong Ding <dinggnu@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:57:43 +0000

> the variable err is uninitialized if all the macros in the function are
> disabled.

Which is never possible because of the Kconfig dependencies.

This is what happens when you focus to narrowly on a piece of
code, you take no context whatsoever into consideration.