On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 05:20:37PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 07:36:59PM +0530, Chandra S Gorentla wrote: > > Fixed - warning: ‘*((void *)&strHostIFmsg+4).pu8Head’ may be used uninitialized > > > > I can't reproduce this warning and the original code looks fine to me. > > When you say the word "fix" it means the code is buggy. Otherwise we > are just silencing warnings or cleaning up code. It's not clear from > the patch description what is happening here, is it a bug or a warning > only? > > regards, > dan carpenter > Following is the build log - ---- gcs@gcs-HP-Compaq-nx6320:~/linux/git-linux$ make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- SUBFOLDER=drivers/staging/wilc1000/ CHK include/config/kernel.release CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h make[1]: `include/generated/mach-types.h' is up to date. CHK include/generated/bounds.h CHK include/generated/timeconst.h CHK include/generated/asm-offsets.h CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh <stdin>:1298:2: warning: #warning syscall userfaultfd not implemented [-Wcpp] CHK include/generated/compile.h CHK kernel/config_data.h CC [M] drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.o drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c: In function ‘host_int_add_beacon’: drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c:7116:16: warning: ‘*((void *)&strHostIFmsg+4).pu8Head’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] LD [M] drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc1000.o Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 85 modules CC drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc1000.mod.o LDFINAL [M] drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc1000.ko gcs@gcs-HP-Compaq-nx6320:~/linux/git-linux$ ---- Proposed fix removes this warning. Currently the 'wilc1000' driver in staging is marked as BROKEN in its KConfig file at 'drivers/staging/wilc1000/'. I had to remove this line to execute the above make command. Thanks, chandra _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel