Re: [PATCH] IDE: Silent compiler warning in ide_pio_bytes()

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From: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:10:52 +0200

> PageHighMem() isn't cheap so avoid calling it several times on the
> same page. I had the hope that this would silent the following
> compilation warning:
> 
> drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c: In function 'ide_pio_bytes':
> drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c:229: warning: 'flags' may be used uninitialized in this function
> 
> which is a false positive, but it did not. So let's just initialize the
> flags and be done with it, so that other developers don't waste their
> time looking at it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>

Like Borislav, I think it's better to use uninitialized_var().
It describes the situation completely.

Please submit an updated patch, and thank you for this.
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