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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] checkpatch compliance
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:33:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201111171633.29471.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC56A2E.2000708@keymile.com>

On Thursday 17 November 2011 15:10:22 Gerlando Falauto wrote:
> On 10/08/2011 12:28 AM, Joe Hershberger wrote:
> > Hi Wolfgang,
> > 
> > I'm attempting to make the files I touched in several recent
> > patch-series chechkpatch.pl compliant.
> > 
> > I've hit several cases which fail and probably shouldn't.  For each of
> > these cases, should the warning / error just be ignored or reported to
> > checkpatch maintainers or altered some other way?
> 
> What is wrong with something like:
> 
> ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL
> #35: FILE: serial.c:32:
> +static struct serial_device *serial_devices = NULL;
> 
> ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL
> #36: FILE: serial.c:33:
> +static struct serial_device *serial_current = NULL;

newer gcc is smart enough to put these into .bss.  i think older ones were not 
and put these into .data.  in either case, the initialization is redundant (by 
virtue of the "static"), so i'd just drop the "= NULL".
-mike
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-17 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-07 22:28 [U-Boot] checkpatch compliance Joe Hershberger
2011-10-09 19:22 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-12  1:41   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] tools: checkpatch.pl from Linux added to tools Joe Hershberger
2011-10-13  2:54     ` Xiangfu Liu
2011-10-13  3:27     ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-13 17:25       ` Joe Hershberger
2011-10-13 18:20         ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-13 18:30           ` Joe Hershberger
2011-10-13 19:01             ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-18 20:06     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] " Joe Hershberger
2011-10-19 18:28       ` Joe Hershberger
2011-11-17 13:28       ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-12  1:42   ` [U-Boot] checkpatch compliance Joe Hershberger
2011-10-12  3:59   ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-12  7:36     ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-12 17:57       ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-12 18:41         ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-12 19:24           ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-13 23:03           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] common: cosmetic: CONFIG_ROOTPATH " Joe Hershberger
2011-10-13 22:34             ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-21 23:21             ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-13 23:03           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] common: cosmetic: CONFIG_BOOTFILE " Joe Hershberger
2011-10-13 22:34             ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-13 22:41               ` Joe Hershberger
2011-10-21 23:21             ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-13  0:56   ` [U-Boot] " Joe Hershberger
2011-10-13  1:03     ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-13 17:14       ` Joe Hershberger
2011-10-13 18:19         ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-13 20:36     ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-11-17 20:10 ` Gerlando Falauto
2011-11-17 20:54   ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-11-18  7:25     ` Gerlando Falauto
2011-11-17 21:33   ` Mike Frysinger [this message]

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