On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 02:43:45PM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 1:42 PM Deepak R Varma <mh12gx2825@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Initializing global variable to 0 or NULL is not necessary and should > > be avoided. Issue reported by checkpatch script as: > > ERROR: do not initialise globals to 0 (or NULL). > > I agree that this is technically correct, but a lot of people don't > seem to know that so we get a lot of comments about this code for the > variables that are not explicitly set. Seems less confusing to > initialize them even if it not necessary. I don't have a particularly > strong opinion on it however. The kernel coding style is to do it this way. You even save space and time by doing it as well :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
