Re: [PATCH] staging: iio: industrialio-core: Fix compiler warning

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On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/22/11 11:08, Maxin B. John wrote:
>> drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-core.c: In function
>> 'iio_device_add_event_sysfs':
>> drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-core.c:914: warning: 'mask' may be
>> used uninitialized in this function
> Thanks for the patch.  It's actually a driver bug if this occurs.
> We could have had a WARN_ON to let userspace know about the bug and
> indeed taken the error route you suggest but
> the relevant code has actually undergone a rewrite anyway so the
> bit you are fixing doesn't exist any more anyway.

 Yes, That makes more sense.

> See http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio-blue.git;a=summary
> For our current dev tree (eats babies and includes all sorts of stuff
> that hasn't been reviewed yet - so beware).

Thanks for sharing  this (scary) info :)

Best Regards,
Maxin
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