On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 02:55:50PM +0100, Kevin Curtis wrote: > Hi Dan, > I am fixing the errors and warning reported by checkpatch. I have quite a few of these: > > ERROR: do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL > #90: FILE: drivers/net/wan/farsync.c:83: > +int fst_excluded_cards = 0; > > Is this because when the module is loaded the globals are > guaranteed to be zero'd already, or is the module init is expected > to initialise them? > In C globals are always initialized to zero at the start. I think there was a reason to prefer one way over the other with older versions of GCC but now it's just a style preference or something. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
