Obviously the intention was to put a limit on the maximum number of operations. However, for this to work, the check should be "&& trials++ < 5", not "|| trials++ < 5". Fixes: 35efa5c489de63a9 ("ALSA: firewire-tascam: add streaming functionality") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Compile-tested only. Triggered by a false-positive warning from gcc-4.1.2: warning: ‘err’ may be used uninitialized in this function --- sound/firewire/tascam/tascam-stream.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sound/firewire/tascam/tascam-stream.c b/sound/firewire/tascam/tascam-stream.c index f1657a4e0621ef49..e433b92ac6904db5 100644 --- a/sound/firewire/tascam/tascam-stream.c +++ b/sound/firewire/tascam/tascam-stream.c @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ int snd_tscm_stream_get_rate(struct snd_tscm *tscm, unsigned int *rate) unsigned int trials = 0; int err; - while (data == 0x0 || trials++ < 5) { + while (data == 0x0 && trials++ < 5) { err = get_clock(tscm, &data); if (err < 0) return err; -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel